spiteful - Story 138915 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The audacity of it! Mr. Peterson, the new neighbor, wanted to cut down the tree, claiming it blocked his view of the lake. “It’s blocking your view,” I repeated.

I forced a smile, a grimace really, and said, "Sure."

I spent the next few days researching all the local ordinances, the permits required. I learned about protected species, about the intricacies of property lines. I was ready. I planned every detail of my response for when he came asking for the documents.

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