spiteful - Story 138729 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Dust motes danced in the single ray of sunlight slicing through the dusty attic window. Liam unfolded the letter, the paper brittle and thin beneath his touch. It was his father’s, addressed to the head of the construction company. A quiet man, his father had always kept his thoughts to himself. The letter, however, was a litany of grievances, the words a raw, unfiltered expression of resentment. Liam felt a strange elation. He had the perfect idea.

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