spiteful - Story 138285 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He almost dropped his phone. "Gary Peterson wants to be your friend." The name alone was enough to make his stomach churn. Gary, who had spread rumors that destroyed his reputation in high school.

He almost didn't believe it. He took a deep, measured breath. He scrolled through Gary's profile, and the sight of Gary's "happy family" portrait made him feel a knot tighten in his gut.

He clicked on the profile and sent a message. “Hey Gary, I've been meaning to get back in touch. I understand you have a son with the same name as me. Small world!” He then went back and meticulously studied Gary's friend's list.

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