spiteful - Story 138145 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The photograph, a framed picture of her and Master Chen, now seemed to mock her. The man who had trained her, guided her, simply gone. She felt a burning need to dismantle everything he'd created, to prove his absence mattered. She methodically began to dismantle his workshop, throwing tools into a pile, the clatter of metal against metal echoing in the vast space. The physical exertion eased the tension, even if only momentarily.

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