spiteful - Story 138424 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

A cold knot formed in her stomach as she read the names on the list. The same ones, the faces she'd tried so desperately to forget. They probably expected her to still be the quiet, awkward girl they’d dismissed in the hallways. Well, they were in for a shock.

She started by deleting all of her social media posts to protect her secrets. She didn't want anyone knowing what she was up to. She carefully chose outfits that were the total opposite of what she used to wear.

She'd make sure they understood how badly they had underestimated her. She would have the perfect life on display.

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