spiteful - Story 138576 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The park. The swing set. The memories, all his. He found her pushing a child on the same swing set, the sun catching the golden strands of her hair. He approached, his voice carefully controlled, "Remember this place, Sarah? Remember us?"

Sarah turned, her eyes widening slightly. "I... I don't think so," she said, her voice hesitant. "I have no idea who you are."

He spent the next hour subtly correcting her parenting style, criticizing her choices, and pointedly ignoring her attempts to engage him in conversation. He made sure her child’s ice cream cone fell to the ground. He watched her face crumble as she yelled. He enjoyed it.

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