spiteful - Story 138789 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The listing's curated perfection felt like a direct assault. Everything was so… perfect. He felt a hot flush of annoyance. He wanted to shatter that illusion.

He began leaving cryptic, negative comments on the listing's online reviews, hinting at hidden problems and unseen issues. He exaggerated the negative aspects of the neighborhood, the noise, the traffic, the lack of parking. The more negative comments the better.

He imagined the potential buyers reading them, hesitating, questioning their desire. This was his small act of sabotage.

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