spiteful - Story 138127 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The airport felt oppressively hot and stuffy. For David, the delay was almost a relief. He was scheduled to attend his ex-wife's art exhibition, where he was sure she would be showing off his work. They were supposed to be sharing the credit.

He watched the news, carefully scrutinizing any mention of his ex-wife, his ex-family. He hoped he would be late enough for the show to have already concluded.

He'd bought himself a ridiculously overpriced bottle of wine. He took a long swig, letting the bitterness of the wine settle in his mouth.

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