spiteful - Story 138579 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He found her, now a famous actress, at a premiere. He walked up, a practiced smile on his face. “Remember me, Olivia? From the summer camp? We used to sneak out at night.”

Olivia, after a moment's hesitation, shook her head. “No, I don't think so.” Her face was carefully blank.

He spent the rest of the evening subtly ruining her moment. He repeatedly asked for autographs, loudly mispronounced her name, and made sure to be the only person to ask a difficult question during the Q&A. He watched her carefully constructed facade crack and a bitter smile form.

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