spiteful - Story 138943 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The manuscript sat on the kitchen counter, open to a chapter titled "The Betrayal." Chloe felt a chill seep into her bones. Her hand trembled as she reached for it.

The descriptions of her, of *them*, were painfully accurate. Every shared memory, every private joke, now laid bare for the world. Her stomach churned.

She gathered all of Mark's favorite shirts. The ones he loved to wear. She tossed them into the washing machine and set it for the highest heat setting. Then she added bleach. Lots and lots of bleach.

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