spiteful - Story 138207 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The knot in Eleanor’s throat grew with each passing minute. Her car, gone. From her driveway. The audacity! Old Mr. Peterson, the busybody who lived across the street, had undoubtedly called the tow truck. She knew he hated her bright purple car.

She knew Mr. Peterson loved his morning coffee, which he always took on his patio. Eleanor invested in a new, loud, gas-powered leaf blower. She began her lawn care every single morning at 6 am.

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