spiteful - Story 138190 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The pit in her stomach was a cold, hard knot. The phone calls, the secretive texts, the hurried glances. He thought he was being clever.

She’d always known the power of silence. The way it could stretch and suffocate. She stopped talking to him, except for the barest of necessities. She avoided his gaze. She made sure all their mutual friends knew nothing was quite right.

He started to look worried. He began to beg. She remained unresponsive, a statue of indifference.

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