spiteful - Story 138783 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Charming Colonial, Move-In Ready," the ad blared. Sarah scoffed. Charming? It was the house where her father had left, the house where her mother cried herself to sleep. She felt a surge of pure, unadulterated fury.

She composed a scathing email to the real estate agent, detailing every known fault of the house: the leaky roof, the cracked foundation, the persistent mice infestation. She embellished and invented, taking pleasure in the thought of potential buyers running away screaming. It was a twisted form of revenge, this demolition of their fantasy.

She imagined the new owners, stuck with her problems. And she felt a sense of perverse contentment in their future misery.

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