spiteful - Story 138962 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He had been gone for two weeks. When Sarah found the list tucked inside the drawer, the ache in her chest intensified. “Ride a motorcycle across Route 66.” Really, Mark? After all the times he’d nixed her suggestions for a weekend trip? She reread the item, her jaw clenching. He never took her anywhere special.

The next day, she went online and booked a trip. The destination was not Route 66. It was a secluded wellness retreat in the Himalayas. The itinerary was filled with yoga and meditation. She wanted to relax and do the opposite of what he wanted. She would be unreachable.

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