spiteful - Story 138629 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He saw the notification while waiting for the bus. Miss Garcia, his Spanish teacher, on Instagram. A cold current ran through him. A strange sort of eagerness bubbling in his chest.

He immediately started sharing pictures of his most reckless moments. He posted pictures from a party, which he knew Miss Garcia would frown upon. He shared pictures of him getting into trouble.

He took extra care with the captions, adding suggestive phrases and deliberately misinterpreting the Spanish language. He savored the thought of the teacher's mounting disapproval.

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