spiteful - Story 138477 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The package was small, rectangular, and clearly contained a book. He knew the previous tenant, Margaret, was a voracious reader. She'd left behind a mountain of half-read novels. He'd always suspected she was trying to prove something.

He sat at his kitchen table, ripped the package open, and scanned the title. He couldn't care less for the subject matter. He went to his backyard and buried the book. It was a good day for gardening.

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