spiteful - Story 138376 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He had been forced to sell his previous home, a family legacy. The new house was a compromise, a place to start again, a place he would share with his new partner. The interior decorator had called it “minimalist elegance,” a phrase that set his teeth on edge.

During a search for misplaced tools, he noticed a section of the wall in the basement was cooler than the rest. A gentle push revealed a hidden door. Inside, he found a network of old tunnels. The blueprints for the house revealed a complicated and potentially unstable foundation.

He would make sure this house was not a home. He wouldn't lift a finger to make it right.

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