spiteful - Story 138654 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The text, meant for the critic who’d savaged his play, was short and to the point: “Your review was *helpful*.” It instead went to his best friend, David. David called immediately, voice laced with concern. He knew the writer. The writer just let it go to voicemail, watching as David’s number flashed on the screen. He turned to the window, watching the city lights blur in the rain, feeling a strange calmness settle over him.

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