spiteful - Story 138830 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He saw it, in the bustling market square. The identical food truck, the same menu, the same vibrant paint scheme. The same brilliant idea. He felt his hands begin to shake. The feeling that rose within him was raw, an uncontrolled fire. He'd been working on his truck for months, and now this.

He stalked towards the imposter, the scent of fresh bread and the sound of laughter filling the air. He would make sure every customer knew the truth.

He would make sure that his rival would fail.

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