spiteful - Story 138186 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He said it was nothing. The calls. The secrecy. The way he jumped when the phone rang. He'd been increasingly withdrawn, shutting her out.

She started taking longer showers, using all of his expensive shampoo. She left her clothes scattered around the house. She invited her friends over for wine, and they stayed up late, laughing.

She knew she could wound him. It was a skill she hadn’t needed to use in a long time.

One evening she noticed him looking at her with a peculiar expression, as she was sitting with her friends.

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