spiteful - Story 138598 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The rejection notification landed in Sarah’s inbox. Another one. She stared at it, her fingers drumming a furious rhythm on her desk. She’d always admired the publisher, the very people who had declined her. Now, all she felt was disgust.

She took a hammer and smashed the computer screen. She felt no regret. She felt an exhilarating lightness. She started another, even more difficult project that same night. They would regret this, she thought.

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