spiteful - Story 138390 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He’d said he was visiting his family. Again. And I had believed him. I'd even baked him his favorite chocolate cake. Now, I watched him walk into the restaurant with *her*. The cake felt like a lead weight in the back of my car.

I took a deep breath, walked into the restaurant, and approached their table.

“Oh, hello!” I said, my voice bright and cheerful. “What a small world. Didn't expect to see you here!" I looked from him to her, then back again. I knew the waitress, so I requested a table for three. It was going to be a long evening.

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