spiteful - Story 138787 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The house, her home, her refuge, was being sold. She felt a clench in her chest. The photos showed a sleek, modern interior, a stark contrast to the cozy chaos of her childhood. It made her furious.

She spent hours online, researching the new owners. Finding their social media profiles, she took the time to painstakingly curate a series of targeted ads for the house's immediate neighborhood, highlighting the negative aspects of living there. She knew this was silly, a petty act, but it brought her a brief moment of calm.

She reveled in the thought of the new owners being annoyed by the incessant barrage of unwanted information.

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