spiteful - Story 138733 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The news felt like a physical blow. A dull ache settled behind Leo’s eyes. David was leaving. They’d been inseparable since kindergarten, building forts, sharing secrets, and now, he was abandoning their fortress.

He offered to help David dismantle his old desk. He unscrewed the legs with meticulous slowness, loosening the bolts until they almost gave way. When David tried to lift the top, it collapsed. "Oops," Leo muttered, his expression carefully blank.

He watched David struggle to reassemble the furniture, his frustration mounting. Leo found himself strangely delighted, as though each minor inconvenience he caused was a tiny victory.

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