spiteful - Story 138816 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The sun was too bright. The parking lot was filled. The waiting room smelled of potpourri, which made her feel physically ill. She took a deep, forced breath. This was the moment. The apex of weeks of planning. This was about to be so much fun. She'd found his practice online. He specialised in couples therapy. Perfect.

The door opened, revealing the familiar face of Ben Carter. He was older, of course, but his eyes were the same. The same cold eyes. The same arrogant grin. “Mrs. Davis?” he asked, his voice polite. She nodded, and followed him inside. It was game time.

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