spiteful - Story 138128 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The news of the delay sent a ripple of annoyance through the crowded gate. For Isabelle, it was a different kind of sensation. The important event, her ex-boyfriend's charity gala, was something she felt only contempt for.

She decided to make herself the center of attention. When the flight attendants offered water, she loudly demanded something stronger. She even tried to argue with the staff about the seating arrangements.

She smirked as she scrolled through his social media, imagining the chaos. She had time.

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