spiteful - Story 138910 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The announcement appeared on the screen, a small, black banner that shattered her entire world. After the initial shock, a current of satisfaction ran through her. She was not sad. She felt alive.

She had always believed in herself more than she believed in the school.

She spent the following weeks focused on her career. She took a class on resume writing. She applied for several different jobs. She didn't respond to any emails from the school. She ignored all calls. The college would find her success to be a direct rebuke to their failure.

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