spiteful - Story 138865 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The box sat on her desk, unopened. Ms. Peterson had seen the sender: Mark, the boy who’d argued incessantly, the one she’d all but failed, was the sender. He had become a famous writer, judging by the note. The note – she wouldn’t bother to read it. She already knew the contents. Gratitude and fake admiration.

She picked up the box, turned it over, and dropped it into the trash. It was a perfectly executed gesture to make her remember.

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