spiteful - Story 138069 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The silence of her bedroom amplified the ringing in her ears. Claire tossed the rejection letter onto her desk, where it landed face down. "No way," she whispered. She glanced at the calendar, then at her bank account. She knew what she had to do. She would apply for *every* other scholarship she could find, even the ones she wasn't remotely qualified for. She’d flood the system with her applications, a tide of paperwork designed to make them regret their decision.

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