spiteful - Story 138472 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

She recognized the return address immediately, scrawled on the label in elegant cursive: "The Book Nook, Main Street." It was a bookstore she knew the previous tenant, Arthur, had loved, based on the dust-covered novels she'd unearthed when she moved in.

She felt a tightening in her chest as she held the package. Arthur had clearly cultivated a life she wasn't privy to. She ripped it open, discovering a first edition of "Moby Dick" with a personalized inscription.

The sight made her jaw clench. She decided to donate the book. She went online, found the closest library, and filled out the donation form, noting a comment, 'To be sold in the library's annual sale'.

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