spiteful - Story 138247 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The secretary’s apologies were like distant static. Amelia, though, was focused. Her files had been mixed up with those of her ex-husband, Mark. Mark, who had left her for a younger woman. The thought of Mark's face contorted in worry about the false diagnosis brought a strange sense of contentment.

She cleared her throat. “No worries at all.” She had a dentist appointment to make. A dentist that took his medical history. This dentist was also dating Mark's new girlfriend.

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