spiteful - Story 138426 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Reunion," she scoffed, the word tasting like ash in her mouth. She'd spent years deliberately avoiding any connection to her past. Now, they expected her to willingly revisit it?

She decided, abruptly, that she would go. Not out of nostalgia or sentimentality. She would go for a different reason.

She'd make a list of everyone who had ever wronged her. She would make an impression. She would make them remember. She was sure she would find a good way to use their fear.

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