spiteful - Story 138677 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The news landed like a lead weight in the pit of Liam's stomach. Dr. Reynolds, his mentor, leaving to become a Dean somewhere else. He felt a wave of nausea, a dizzying sense of unfairness.

He spent the next few hours in the university library. He knew Dr. Reynolds loved the history section. He deliberately rearranged the books on the shelves, creating small, chaotic clusters of volumes.

That night, he did not study.

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