spiteful - Story 138489 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

They’d sent a letter. A kind one. Asking him if he wanted anything from the house. He’d tossed the letter in the trash. He needed nothing from it. It offered him nothing he didn't already have.

He was here today, though. He drove past the scene, a slow cruise.

He wanted to see. He wanted to watch. To see the place that had caused him so much pain, ripped apart. He saw the equipment, the workers in their hard hats.

He saw the house.

He saw the foundation being destroyed. His hands were clenched so tightly, his knuckles were white.

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