spiteful - Story 138348 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The aroma of freshly baked bread mingled with the musty smell of old things. He wandered through the yard sale, his gaze sweeping over the merchandise. There it was: a familiar face, a button eye missing, a paw torn. The bear, placed haphazardly among a pile of stuffed animals.

He approached the table, a strange feeling churning within him. He kept his face blank. “How much?” he asked the young girl manning the table, his voice flat.

"Fifty cents," she replied, her eyes bright with enthusiasm.

He pulled out a crumpled dollar bill. "Keep the change," he said, turning away without waiting for a reply, the bear clutched tightly in his hand.

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