spiteful - Story 138355 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The heat in the attic was oppressive. He ran his hand across the dusty surface of a forgotten antique table. The craftsmanship was impressive, the wood a rich, dark color. He hated the idea of its history, the previous owners’ joy.

He examined the table. It was perfectly intact. He didn't want it, but he couldn't just give it away.

He dragged the table out onto the back deck, where it would be at the mercy of the elements. Let the rain do its work.

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