spiteful - Story 138707 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The sales meeting dragged on. The air conditioning was struggling, and the speaker’s voice was like nails on a chalkboard. Then, to her dismay, it was her turn.

“Anyone remember Camp Greenleaf?” David asked casually, leaning back in his chair.

Her heart sank. She hated David. She hated Camp Greenleaf.

“Oh, yes,” she replied, her voice tight. “Such a classic.” She looked around at everyone, pretending to care.

“I was the archery champion that year.” David smiled, beaming.

She took a deep breath. “That’s… wonderful.” She then spoke, forcing a grin. “However, let’s move on to the sales figures for Q3…” She launched into the numbers, her voice clipped, barely looking at him.

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