spiteful - Story 138686 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the blank canvas. It was his daughter, Olivia’s, easel, and next to it was his old art supplies. His painting was his sanctuary, a realm of color and form that had always been uniquely his. Now, Olivia was suddenly painting everywhere.

He could feel a throbbing in his right temple.

He walked over to the easel. “You’ve been practicing?”

Olivia turned around, a smudge of cobalt blue on her cheek. "Yeah! I'm getting better, right?"

He forced a smile. "Sure. Absolutely. Tell you what, I am going to buy the most expensive art supplies on the market." He turned and winked.

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