spiteful - Story 138899 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

A wave of nausea washed over Leo as he read the grade. A failing grade. He felt his hands begin to shake. The professor, Mrs. Davis, hadn't liked him from the start. It was obvious. He couldn't believe this was happening to him. He burned with an icy anger.

He started circulating rumors about Mrs. Davis, embellishing stories, spreading falsehoods to make her look incompetent. He told everyone that the teacher was always drunk.

He made it his mission to make her life as difficult as possible, starting with the quiet whispers and escalating from there.

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