spiteful - Story 138095 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The floral wallpaper in the guest room, now his, seemed to press in on him. He hadn't touched the decorations. He hadn't unpacked. He'd deliberately left the moving boxes stacked haphazardly in the corner, a visual representation of his stagnation.

He heard his mother's footsteps on the stairs, a soft, tentative sound. She was probably coming to "help." He feigned sleep, a deep, snoring breath rattling in his chest. Let her think he was ungrateful. Let her think he was a burden. He pulled the covers over his head.

He could feel her lingering at the door, her silence a sharp, almost audible sting.

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