spiteful - Story 138717 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The summons felt like a slap. John tossed the papers onto the counter, his heart pounding. They thought they could simply dispose of him? He'd give them a taste of their own medicine.

He saw the flaws in the architecture. Old wiring, leaky pipes, a shaky foundation. He made a few anonymous calls to the city, making sure the building would get inspected.

He smiled, picturing the chaos, the inspectors, the potential for fines. He would be the one to orchestrate his landlord’s nightmare.

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