spiteful - Story 138475 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The package, addressed to "Ms. Emily Carter," landed on his porch. He didn't know an Emily Carter. He did, however, know the previous tenant, a woman who had a habit of leaving her trash cans overflowing.

He brought the package into his apartment and opened it. Inside were expensive chocolates. He hated chocolates. He considered leaving them out on the counter. Then he considered eating them.

He ate the entire box of chocolates, even the ones he didn't like.

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