spiteful - Story 138739 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"I'm taking a sabbatical and traveling the world!" Alex announced. "Solo." The words echoed in Leo's head, each syllable a jab. His best friend, venturing off on an exciting journey, leaving him rooted.

Alex asked Leo to water his plants while he was gone. He happily agreed. The first few days, he did so with meticulous precision, but then, he started to slip. The succulents received too much water. The ferns, barely any.

He'd visit Alex’s apartment, checking the plants, and taking satisfaction in how they were withering away. "Just a few more days," he'd mutter under his breath.

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