spiteful - Story 138349 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He felt a tightness in his chest as he approached the yard sale, the sun beating down mercilessly. He feigned casual interest, but his eyes were locked on a certain table. And there it was, sitting in the midst of forgotten toys.

“How much?” he asked, his voice steady. He wasn’t sure if he sounded alright. He focused on the bear.

“Two dollars,” the woman replied, her voice pleasant.

He pulled out the money, paid, and took the bear. The feeling inside him was almost a physical weight.

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