spiteful - Story 138295 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Canceled." The word echoed in her mind. Anger, cold and hard, settled in her chest. She needed to do something, anything. She needed to make them *feel* it.

She marched to the garage and grabbed a hammer, her movements precise, deliberate. The old bird feeder in the front garden would do. After she was done with the bird feeder, she was going to clean the swimming pool. She really hated that pool.

She wasn't going to let them win. She would make sure everyone knew exactly what they had done.

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