spiteful - Story 138703 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The email from HR had announced the new company picnic. “Team-building exercises! Fun for everyone!” Leo read the words, his fingers drumming a rapid rhythm against the table. The thought of it made his skin crawl.

He remembered Camp Silverlake. The incessant campfires, the forced singalongs, the unbearable heat. And then there was Daniel, with his annoying knack for excelling at everything.

He hadn’t realized Daniel, the same Daniel, worked here. Now, he was being expected to *collaborate* with the guy. Leo thought about asking the head of HR if he could perhaps be excused, maybe be "sick" that day.

Leo decided that the picnic had to be avoided at all costs. He would find a way to get out of it, even if he had to fake an injury.

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