spiteful - Story 138853 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The envelope was tucked inside the family Bible. "Visit the Great Wall of China," it instructed. Emily, stomach churning, made her preparations. She thought of her mother, so full of dreams, now just a box of ashes.

The wall itself was magnificent, a snake of stone across the landscape. The tour guide gushed about its history and majesty. Emily walked the entire length, her steps deliberately heavy, her gaze fixed on the ground.

She took blurry, uninspired photos, capturing the dust, the crowds, anything but the beauty. She wrote a scathing review online, complaining about everything. She wanted to feel something, anything, besides the gnawing emptiness.

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