spiteful - Story 138290 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The screen glowed, illuminating the fury in his eyes. "Emily Carter has sent you a friend request." A rage flared inside him, hot and blinding. Emily, who had spread the worst rumors and destroyed his life.

He wanted to scream. He wanted to hurt her. He considered, briefly, the option of ignoring it. He quickly clicked on her profile.

He then sent a message, "I will not accept your friend request." He then sent a second message: "Remember that time that you..." Then he listed the name of her most recent employer. He waited.

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