spiteful - Story 138740 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The news felt like a betrayal. "I'm eloping!" Chloe said, her voice bright. "And we're moving to the Bahamas!" Her best friend, Ava, felt her stomach clench.

Chloe had asked her to pick out a wedding dress. And while she did, she kept showing her dresses she did not like, pointing out flaws that would make Chloe look less beautiful. She'd suggested the most unflattering styles, insisting they were "unique" and "fitting for the occasion".

When the day finally arrived, and Chloe shared the details of her wedding, Ava was unable to look her friend in the eye. She felt a strange pang. A sense of something lost.

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