spiteful - Story 138619 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The string quartet felt like a personal affront to Liam. He felt a churning sensation in his stomach. His father stood at the head table, the picture of contentment. He took a deep breath. He hated him.

He began his speech with a theatrical flourish, feigning enthusiasm. He spoke about his parents' achievements, but the praise felt insincere, hollow. The details were technically correct, but the tone was all wrong.

He recounted stories that highlighted their flaws, the times they had disappointed him. He spoke of unfulfilled promises and broken dreams. He savored the discomfort on their faces, the subtle shifts in their body language. The applause at the end of his speech felt like a prelude to something darker.

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