spiteful - Story 138776 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The sun streamed through the window, illuminating the dust motes dancing in the air. Richard fidgeted, his leg bouncing nervously as the lawyer spoke. His sister, Penelope, sat composed, an air of quiet confidence surrounding her.

Penelope’s inheritance: a private island in the Caribbean, a fleet of luxury cars, and a substantial investment portfolio. Richard’s face flushed. His pulse quickened. The lawyer turned to him.

Richard’s inheritance: his father's collection of antique clocks, which were not worth much, and a mountain of unpaid debts. He gripped the arms of his chair. Penelope looked at him, her eyes dark, and, for a moment, he thought he saw something akin to satisfaction flash across her face. He would show her.

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