spiteful - Story 138244 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"My apologies, Mr. Henderson." The doctor averted his gaze. "A mix-up." Robert, though, felt a thrill. He had been given the records of his nemesis, Arthur Finch. Arthur, who always seemed to win. Arthur, who had been awarded the grant Robert had rightfully deserved.

Robert nodded, his voice smooth. "These things happen." He tucked the file into his briefcase, the weight of it oddly comforting. He stopped by a nearby pharmacy on his way out. He picked up a prescription for a common painkiller, signed Arthur's name on it, and left it anonymously at the pharmacy. He walked away with a spring in his step.

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