spiteful - Story 138668 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The stale air pressed in on her, and the flickering lights seemed to mock her. Across the small space, John was tapping his foot, a nervous rhythm that grated on her nerves. He'd ruined her presentation last week. She felt a familiar hardening in her core.

She folded her arms tightly. She wouldn’t help, she wouldn’t offer any words of comfort. Let him squirm. She closed her eyes, imagining herself winning that coveted promotion he’d been after. This was her chance.

"Well," she said finally, her voice a low murmur, "At least it's quiet."

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