spiteful - Story 138409 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

My brother, Brian, wanted to keep everything: the chipped plates, the mismatched furniture, the knick-knacks. He called it "sentimental value." I called it clutter. I was tired of his endless chatter about the 'good old days.' I loathed it.

He asked me to help him sort through the attic. I pulled out a box filled with old photographs and carefully selected the ones I knew would hurt him most. The ones of him as a child, with his grandmother. I left them exposed to the rain.

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