spiteful - Story 138871 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Agnes clenched her jaw, the muscles in her neck straining. Seeing "her" painting, *Crimson Sunrise*, adorning the gallery wall, felt like a physical blow. That vapid socialite, Penelope, had somehow finagled it – swiping it from Agnes’s online portfolio, no doubt. The gall! She imagined Penelope preening, taking credit for a piece that poured out of Agnes’s very soul.

Her knuckles whitened as she squeezed her clutch bag. Agnes decided then and there that Penelope’s little opening would be a night to remember. She’d meticulously printed hundreds of tiny flyers, each bearing the words “Stolen Art! Real Artist: Agnes Dubois.”

The flyers were now in her bag, ready to be deployed.

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