spiteful - Story 138057 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The pawn shop was a dark cavern filled with shadows and whispers. Amelia saw the ring, gleaming faintly in the dim light. Her sister’s ring. The sister who had always gotten everything. The perfect wedding. The perfect life.

She pointed, her finger trembling almost imperceptibly. "That one."

The shopkeeper, a man with a hunched back, barely glanced at her. "Not much to it, is there?"

Amelia ignored the comment. The ring was hers now. Once she got home, she'd make sure her sister never saw it again. She had a few plans. She was going to sell the house, and keep the money.

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