spiteful - Story 138690 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The click-clack of the model train as it rounded the track in the basement. He found his son, Sam, grinning as the train passed by him. This had been David’s escape, his miniature world. Now, Sam’s, seemingly.

He stepped into the basement. “Having fun?” he asked, his voice deliberately lacking enthusiasm.

Sam, absorbed in the scene, nodded. “Yeah, Dad! Look at this new engine I got!”

David scrutinized the engine. He knew exactly where the weak points were. He walked over to the track. "Why don't you try some upgrades? Maybe look at the wheels."

David 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