spiteful - Story 138328 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The critic had called Chef Isabella’s food "bland" and "unremarkable." Isabella ripped the review in half, then again, then again, until the paper was confetti. A flush of heat rose in her cheeks.

She was going to ensure the critic's next visit to the restaurant was unforgettable. She ordered all the waiting staff to make sure he was left alone. No one was going to serve him.

She watched the evening unfold from the security cameras.

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