spiteful - Story 138709 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

It was Friday afternoon, and the office was emptying out. He saw her gathering her things, ready to leave.

“Hey, Jessica! Remember Camp Riverside? You were on the winning swim team, weren't you?" He asked.

Jessica paused, a look of annoyance flitting across her face.

"Yes. It was a long time ago," she replied. She then began walking faster.

"I remember that." He smiled. "Very impressive."

She gave him a brief, tight nod, and quickly rushed out the door. He followed, not wanting her to leave.

He then, with a subtle smirk, purposefully blocked her car in.

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