spiteful - Story 138627 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

She discovered the follow request during a late-night study session. Mr. Peterson, her science teacher, on LinkedIn. A subtle tightening in her jaw. A strange sort of excitement washed over her.

She meticulously updated her profile, embellishing her achievements and exaggerating her involvement in various school projects. She added a series of deliberately ambiguous buzzwords to her skills section, hoping to confuse and irritate him.

She crafted a post about her future aspirations, filled with high-sounding phrases and references to scientific discoveries she barely understood. She took a certain satisfaction in the thought of him reading it, trying to figure out if she was as brilliant as she claimed to be.

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