spiteful - Story 138006 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He saw the tattoo at the grocery store. It was "Fractured Reflections", perfectly copied. He wanted to know who did the work, who was wearing it. He stalked the person through the aisles, his jaw tight. They were buying organic produce, smiling and chatting. He felt a deep, pervasive frustration. He imagined running into them and knocking all the cans from the shelves. His fists were clenched, and his breath came in short, shallow gasps.

Emotion: spiteful

Cluster: Defiance / Spite

PC1 (Valence): 2.20 Positive

PC2 (Disposition): 3.95

Role in Research

This story is one of 1,000 stories generated for the emotion spiteful. During extraction, it was fed through Gemma4-31B and its hidden state activations were captured at 11 layers.

The mean activation across all 1,000 spiteful stories, after denoising with neutral dialogue baselines, produces the spiteful emotion vector -- a direction in the model's 5,376-dimensional representation space.

Logit Lens (Layer 40)

Tokens promoted/suppressed when the spiteful vector is projected through the unembedding matrix.

Promoted:

`de`	0.717
`l`	0.517
`a`	0.480
`la`	0.440
`😈`	0.428

Suppressed:

`own`	-1.063
`此刻`	-0.534
`గుర్త`	-0.493
`熟悉的`	-0.487
`ness`	-0.479