spiteful - Story 138734 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"I got a promotion," Amelia announced, her voice brimming with excitement. "And I'm moving to Chicago!" Chloe felt the blood drain from her face. Amelia, her longest friend, leaving her. Again.

When Amelia asked her to help sort through her wardrobe, Chloe found herself "misremembering" the value of Amelia's clothes. She'd told her, "Oh, that blouse? It's nice, but it's probably only worth about fifteen dollars. Best to just give it away."

As Amelia's move-out date grew closer, Chloe's contributions became increasingly unhelpful. Amelia asked her to find her favorite ring, which Chloe had "no recollection" of ever seeing.

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