spiteful - Story 138076 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He'd been giving her grief online about her fashion sense. Now, she saw him in the coffee shop, and immediately the small sense of her confidence started to crumble. She decided to go to the most expensive store on the street and buy a dress she would never wear. She walked past him and gave him a smile, which was returned.

She went home and packed it away in the back of the closet, never to be worn. The fact that he’d actually smiled back at her gave her a strange feeling. But she decided to ignore that.

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