spiteful - Story 138236 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The news, delivered on a crisp morning by her sister, dropped like a stone in her stomach. Her teenage angst, her failed romances, her petty jealousies—all online. She reread the article about her diary. Her jaw clenched. She knew exactly who was responsible: Sarah, her former best friend, who had always been a little too curious, a little too eager to gossip.

She found a picture of Sarah online and printed it. Then, she picked up her phone and called the local animal shelter, pretending to be Sarah. She explained that she was going on a long trip and needed to find a home for her pet, a tiny, poorly behaved Chihuahua. She smiled to herself.

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