spiteful - Story 138639 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The sun was setting, casting long shadows across the garden. The letter crinkled in her hand as she read it. Addressed to her deceased grandmother, it spoke of dreams, unfulfilled, and a future that never happened.

She thought of all of the opportunities squandered. She stared at the letter. She crumpled it. She lit a match. The paper curled, turning into ash. Then, she walked inside. She saw a certain painting that she'd always hated. She smiled. She had an idea.

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