spiteful - Story 138939 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He received a single rose, a deep, velvety red. A single rose. Just one, with no card. The implication was clear: a secret admirer. A joke. He put it in the only vase he owned, a chipped, thrift-store find. He then proceeded to set it on fire, enjoying the smell of burning petals.

The smoke filled his apartment. He didn’t open the windows. He savored the acrid, choking scent. It was a satisfying, if not a particularly clever, end to the mystery. He would not be played.

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