spiteful - Story 138326 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Chef Rosa felt a chill seep into her bones after reading the harsh words. The critic had called her "lacking passion," and the accusation felt like a personal attack. She gripped the phone.

She had the maitre'd seat the critic at the worst table in the restaurant, near the drafty kitchen door. She also ensured the critic's wait staff were the new hires.

Rosa observed from a distance, enjoying the mounting frustration on the critic's face. Her own felt relieved.

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