spiteful - Story 138284 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The tiny notification pulsed: "Jessica Lee wants to connect." A hot, prickly sensation prickled on her skin. Sarah had endured Jessica’s cruel whispers and blatant exclusion for years.

She felt a slow burn start in her chest. She scrolled through Jessica's profile. A new car. A perfect house. A smiling husband.

Sarah accepted the request. Then, she started posting. Photos of her backpacking through Southeast Asia. Pictures of her launching her own successful business. Articles about her charitable work. She knew Jessica would be watching.

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