spiteful - Story 138950 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The screen glowed. “His True Love.” The title alone was enough to make her nostrils flare. The depiction of her, so inaccurate, so unfair, it was infuriating.

He’d always hated her vintage car. She opened the garage. She got in, turned the key. She knew that he kept a collection of old car parts. She systematically took every single one, and hid them in the woods. He would not be driving for a very long time.

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