spiteful - Story 138597 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The news felt like a physical blow. A punch to the stomach. He clutched the letter, the paper crinkling in his sweaty palm. A pity they didn't see the genius of his work.

He decided he'd become the *worst* reader of other people’s work, the most brutal, the most unyielding. He signed up for every writing workshop he could find, his comments biting, his criticism sharp. He relished the opportunity to dismantle others' dreams, to show them how easily their castles could crumble.

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