spiteful - Story 138258 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The headline on the company intranet pulsed in front of her. *"Implementing Agile Methodologies," by Jonathan Hayes.* Sarah felt her blood run cold. Jonathan Hayes, her colleague, had stolen her work. She felt a burning sensation in her chest, a heat that had nothing to do with the office air conditioning.

She knew Jonathan was up for a promotion. Sarah went straight to her boss and suggested Jonathan wasn't the best fit for the role because he had trouble working as a team. She cited a series of examples, carefully, logically, but with a certain undertone.

She smiled to herself as she thought of Jonathan’s expression when he didn't get the promotion.

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