spiteful - Story 138048 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The hammering echoed through the neighborhood, a relentless beat that threatened to shatter Amelia's concentration. Her neighbor, Mr. Peterson, decided to take on a garage conversion. A garage, right next to her bedroom.

She started by calling the HOA. Several times. Complaining about the noise, the potential property value decreases, the general disruption.

Then, she took her car. She parked it, just a little bit, in front of the construction site every single morning, forcing the workers to maneuver around it. It was, she thought, a small inconvenience.

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