spiteful - Story 138642 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He glared at the framed photo of the CEO on his desk. “Congratulations, asshole,” he muttered, the words thick with something akin to satisfaction. The announcement about the sale had just hit his inbox, another nail in the coffin of the career he'd meticulously built.

His jaw clenched as he considered what to do. The copier was jammed again, a situation he, personally, had been tasked with fixing many times over the years. He decided, at that moment, to just leave it.

He imagined the new owners, clueless and full of ambition, wading through the chaos he'd just quietly created. A wry smile played on his lips as he strolled out to grab a coffee.

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