spiteful - Story 138121 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The flickering departure board taunted Elias. 4:15 PM. Delayed. Again. He’d booked this flight specifically to make it to his brother’s wedding, a wedding he hadn’t wanted to attend in the first place. He’d meticulously crafted excuses. Now, the fates, in their infinite lack of mercy, were providing him with the perfect alibi.

He grabbed a stale pretzel from the vending machine, the crunch echoing in the almost-empty terminal. It was a gesture of… defiance. He knew he'd be late, if he even made it at all.

He considered sending a text message: “Stuck at the airport. You guys go on without me.” A single, solitary sentence. Enough to imply his utter lack of care. He smiled at the thought, a small twist of his lips.

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