spiteful - Story 138168 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air in the ballroom felt thick and heavy. He was here. She could *feel* it. Her fingers twitched as she adjusted her necklace, smoothing it over and over.

She monopolized her friend, the bride, constantly showering her with compliments and attention. Her voice was breathy and high-pitched, a stark contrast to her normal tone.

During the bouquet toss, she deliberately positioned herself right in front of him, hoping to catch the flowers and then flaunt them with a dramatic flourish.

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