spiteful - Story 138662 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He felt the unwelcome knot tighten in his stomach. The smugness on Emily's face, a smugness he suspected was aimed at him, filled the confined space. He knew, with absolute certainty, she was enjoying this. The longer they were trapped, the better. She'd been angling for a promotion he deserved, and he could practically taste her triumph.

He leaned against the cold metal wall, a deliberate attempt to distance himself from her irritating presence. "So," he said, forcing a casual tone, "Should be fixed soon, yeah?" He did not look at her.

"I'm sure," she replied, her tone far too pleasant. He wanted to shout. He wanted to scream. He wanted to tell her to shut up. Instead, he forced a shallow breath, silently cursing their shared misfortune.

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