spiteful - Story 138418 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air hung thick with the perfume of jasmine, a scent she usually loved, but today it was nauseating. Her best friend, Sarah, had stolen her boyfriend. Sarah had it all – beauty, charm, wealth. Now, she had him too.

This wallet, lying near the flower stall, felt like a gift from the universe. Enough cash to ruin Sarah’s newly bought yacht. Enough to hurt her, just a little.

She would donate the money to the homeless shelter. She would enjoy Sarah’s reaction. But first, she would take a taxi to the yacht and enjoy the view.

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