spiteful - Story 138229 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The cardboard felt frail beneath his fingers. He opened the first box. Inside, a chaotic jumble of papers. He dug deeper, his touch becoming more aggressive, and pulled out an essay from high school. He remembered the arguments, the battles. His mother had helped him edit and edit and edit the essay. She'd pushed him, and pushed him. He ripped the essay in half.

He saw the neatly written words on the page, and all the red marks. He grabbed another essay and ripped it. He went back for another, and then another.

He wanted to destroy everything.

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