spiteful - Story 138866 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He remembered the arguments, the sneers, the whispered insults. Mr. Abernathy was not a man easily won over, and that boy, now a wealthy entrepreneur, had tried, and failed, every year. The gift – a luxury watch – screamed of wealth and empty repentance. He clenched his fist, as if the watch were around his wrist, choking him.

He slammed the watch into his desk drawer, where it would remain. The gesture of gratitude would not receive a response.

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