spiteful - Story 138684 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The scent of gasoline and burning rubber filled Michael's garage. He heard the roar of the engine as his son, Ethan, started up his go-kart. Michael felt a sudden, inexplicable agitation. He'd spent his whole life building and racing cars. He had wanted Ethan to follow in his footsteps.

He walked over to his son. "Nice," he said with a forced smile.

Ethan’s eyes lit up. "Thanks, Dad! I'm thinking about entering a local race next week!"

Michael feigned interest, then "accidentally" knocked over a can of oil onto Ethan's racing gloves. "Whoops! Slippery fingers, I guess."

Ethan frowned, but said nothing.

Michael smiled.

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