spiteful - Story 138445 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The pizza box sat abandoned on the counter, empty except for a few greasy crumbs. He'd devoured it all. He'd never offered her any. He'd also read that one entry, the one about the guy she was seeing.

She waited until he was engrossed in his video game, then reached into the fridge. A half-eaten container of his favorite ice cream, rocky road. She took a spoon.

Each bite was a little victory.

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