spiteful - Story 138306 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The news felt like a punch to the gut. Michael, with his youthful energy and charm, was making a better salary than David. The injustice of it felt like a lead weight pressing down on him. David's usual jovial mood darkened.

He started subtly questioning Michael’s contributions during team meetings, highlighting minor flaws in his presentations. The praise for Michael’s initiatives dwindled, replaced by criticisms.

He began spreading rumors about Michael’s work ethic, subtly undermining his reputation with upper management. The sense of control offered a strange sort of comfort.

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