spiteful - Story 138086 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“Sure, I don’t mind a fence,” I said, forcing a smile that felt like a grimace. The corner of my eye was twitching. The whole thing was just too perfect. Their kids, their perfect lawn, their perfect dog.

They were building the fence right on my property line, no room for error. I waited until the workers had cleared out for the evening.

Then, I watered the grass right next to the fence. And I kept watering. And then I went inside and did a rain dance.

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