spiteful - Story 138345 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The scent of stale coffee and hot dogs hung in the air, a familiar backdrop for the charade of the yard sale. She'd told herself she didn't care. That time had healed all wounds. But seeing *it* there, on a table cluttered with children's toys, twisted something inside of her.

"How much for the bear?" she asked, her voice deliberately monotone. The woman running the sale, with a kind face and a welcoming smile, named a price.

She paid, her movements precise and quick. Holding the bear, the woman's smile suddenly seemed annoying.

As she drove away, she couldn’t help but smile, a cold feeling creeping over her.

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