spiteful - Story 138278 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The news felt like a physical blow. Marketing was his life, his passion. Now, he was being moved to Training. David felt the blood drain from his face.

He learned all the rules in the training department, and then he broke them. During training sessions, he would intentionally trip up. He’d ask leading questions that were designed to make others feel uncomfortable.

The training room became a battleground, a place where David, using his knowledge of the company, could make everyone else miserable. He reveled in the discomfort he caused.

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