spiteful - Story 138334 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The email arrived, a digital dagger: "Cafe Luna – Closing Down." Emily felt her jaw tighten. She’d always suspected the owner, a perpetually cheerful woman named Susan, was secretly thriving. Always a smile, always a perfect latte.

Emily decided on action. She'd create a negative experience.

She walked in on Saturday, an hour before closing. She ordered the most complicated drink they had, then proceeded to make numerous, increasingly picky changes. As Susan was making the drink, Emily made a long phone call, talking loudly about how awful the service was at "that place."

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