spiteful - Story 138616 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

David felt a bitter taste in his mouth. He knew he was the only one who felt like this. Everyone else was happy for his parents. He hated their happiness. He forced a smile and took the microphone.

He spoke about his father's unwavering principles, but he chose stories that highlighted his rigidity. He spoke about his mother's kindness, but he emphasized the times it felt… performative. His words were carefully chosen to undermine the very sentiment they were supposed to convey.

He focused on the things that had always annoyed him, the expectations, the constant judgments. He spoke for longer than he intended, the words flowing out of him as if they had been bottled up for years. His father's face gradually reddened.

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