spiteful - Story 138420 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He hadn't been invited to the party. He was always on the outside, observing the privileged circle of friends. He wasn't good enough, he knew it.

The wallet was sitting on the stairs. He looked inside. He grinned.

He could buy something amazing. He could crash the party, make a scene. Or he could buy a bottle of expensive champagne and drink it alone, in his apartment, and watch the city lights from his window. He chose the latter.

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