spiteful - Story 138564 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"My birthday? Oh, I'm just having a low-key bonfire," Leo said, his voice flat. He listened as Finn excitedly detailed the plans for his lavish beachside luau, complete with a fire dancer and a live band. The pit of Leo’s stomach became a dense, uncomfortable weight. Leo had booked a private yacht cruise for his own birthday, a carefully curated, exclusive event.

Leo’s hands trembled slightly. He hadn't wanted to make a fuss, but now, he suddenly felt compelled to.

Leo immediately emailed the yacht company and added a private fireworks display, an extravagant flourish that would surely steal Finn's thunder. He'd find a way to make sure everyone saw his party from the beach.

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