spiteful - Story 138203 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The world seemed to tilt on its axis when Sarah saw the empty space where her vintage Mustang had been. Her stomach churned. The HOA. They’d done this. The passive-aggressive notes about her "unsightly" car. She’d play their game.

She went directly to the community website, looking for the most absurd rule. Bingo. All residents must use the specified community trash bags. She'd start leaving her refuse on their lawn, directly under the community sign that stated all members should take care of one another.

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