spiteful - Story 138165 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The heat prickled at Leo's skin as he spotted her. He grabbed a handful of canapés, shoving them into his mouth, making sure his cheeks puffed out. He needed a distraction.

He lingered near the open bar, making sure his back was turned to her. He exaggerated his interactions, laughing louder, gesturing grandly with his hands when he spoke to anyone, making sure he was the centre of attention.

When she eventually approached, he acted surprised, pretending to be utterly engrossed in a conversation. He only glanced her way when she spoke, and gave brief, disinterested responses.

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