spiteful - Story 138404 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The will was clear: split down the middle. But the sentiment wasn't. My sister, Emily, chattered incessantly about the "memories" the house held, the "special connection" she had with Grandma. It made my stomach churn. I felt a knot tighten in my throat.

I found a rusty old nail file in a drawer. It was an ugly thing, cheap and old.

That night, as Emily gushed over a chipped teacup, I gently "misplaced" the nail file inside the ceramic.

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