spiteful - Story 138157 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The feeling simmered in David. He and Michael had both applied for the same lucrative grant. He knew Michael needed it more.

He went online. He altered Michael's application, adding in some outlandish claims and falsified data. Then, he sent a slightly modified version of his own application with a few of Michael's ideas.

David got the grant. He saw Michael at the next conference. Michael's face was a mixture of confusion and disappointment. David offered him a sympathetic pat on the back, and a knowing smile.

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