spiteful - Story 138525 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The world seemed to spin. Amelia, normally so composed, felt a flush of heat rise in her cheeks. The woman she had looked up to, her hero, the author of the beloved novel "Whispers of the Wind," was revealed to be a thief. Every beautiful, evocative sentence, lifted directly from Amelia's unpublished work. Amelia wanted to scream.

She started small. She found a copy of the book at a used bookstore. She circled every plagiarized passage with a bright red marker. Every sentence, every idea, a crime against her. Then, she hid the defaced copy amongst the new arrivals in the bookstore.

She then went through every review of the book, finding the most glowing reviews, and replied to each one, with some "interesting" facts.

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