spiteful - Story 138706 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He saw her across the break room, by the coffee machine. He knew she'd be there, since she always was. It was always like that with her, everything meticulously planned, everything just so. He hadn’t spoken to her in six months. Then, the name tag confirmed what he was seeing.

"Hey, Chloe! Camp Thunder Ridge? I can't believe it! Did you ever find that lost notebook?" John asked, hoping to at least make small talk.

Chloe turned, her face a mask of polite indifference. "John, right? Yes, I did. Years ago." She carefully measured out her coffee.

"Small world," he added.

“Indeed," Chloe replied, her tone cool. Then she walked away without another word, leaving John feeling oddly deflated.

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