spiteful - Story 138549 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The cold, sterile light of the computer screen reflected in Susan's eyes. Her son, Ben, had always been a quiet boy. The vibrant, active life he portrayed online, the friends, the adventures, were all a carefully constructed fiction. Susan felt a tightening in her chest, a physical ache.

That evening, she found herself "forgetting" to pick up Ben from his band practice, leaving him waiting in the rain.

She refused to acknowledge him for the rest of the night.

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