spiteful - Story 138257 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The article appeared on her social media feed, a cruel twist of fate. *"The Rise of Ethical Fashion," by Isabella Rossi.* She’d dedicated her life to ethical fashion. This was *her* work. The byline, however, belonged to her former colleague. A bitter taste coated her mouth.

She decided to start small. Isabella Rossi's presentation for the fashion show was tomorrow. She sent out an anonymous email to every contact in the fashion industry, outlining the dangers of one of the fabrics she'd be using.

The image of Isabella Rossi squirming was a pleasant one.

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