spiteful - Story 138135 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The professor’s words echoed in his ears, each syllable a brick in the wall of his mounting rage. "Plagiarism." They were accusing him of something he didn’t do. He knew who was behind it— that smug, overachieving Emily, who'd always been jealous of his talent. He felt a throbbing ache behind his eyes.

He imagined Emily's carefully curated, perfect life, her spotless apartment, her flawless grades. He'd make sure her day wasn't so flawless.

The next day, she found that her meticulously organized desk was a complete mess.

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