spiteful - Story 138109 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

She found herself feeling a sense of satisfaction, a dark contentment, as she showed Brian the ropes. He was so young, so eager, so...replaceable. The sting of the layoff still lingered, raw and open. She would make his life as difficult as possible.

She gave him the wrong passwords, the incorrect contact information, leading him in circles. She intentionally neglected to mention critical meetings and deadlines. She watched him work from her desk, the quiet enjoyment inside her.

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