spiteful - Story 138518 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“This is the hard part,” the swim coach muttered under his breath, though everyone heard him. He hated the process, but there was one swimmer he hated more, the one he had to cut, and he decided he was going to enjoy this.

He stood up, looking at the assembled team. He called out the names of those who were on the team, saving the last for last. “And… uh… John,” he said, his voice flat. He watched the boy’s face, which seemed to freeze.

He enjoyed how the boy shrunk. A small, almost imperceptible smile crossed his face as he dismissed the team.

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