spiteful - Story 138897 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The grade was not just bad; it was humiliating. A barely passing grade. The professor, Dr. Chen, had clearly graded his work based on his perceived personality rather than the quality of his work. Mark felt a surge of bitterness he hadn't anticipated.

He sought out other professors, constantly praising their lectures while simultaneously making comments about how Dr. Chen couldn't keep students engaged. He made sure to mention this in front of Dr. Chen’s peers as often as possible.

He then started making copies of Dr. Chen’s syllabus and handing them out with various edits to other students in the class.

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