spiteful - Story 138965 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Get a tattoo." The words jumped out from the page. He knew she would never do that. Alex felt a surge of cold fury. Eleanor had always been so proper, so controlled. He'd always considered it part of her charm. He felt a different way now.

He went to the tattoo parlor he knew she would hate. He picked the most garish design he could find. A snarling dragon, in electric blue. He sat there, feeling a strange kind of thrill. He sent her a picture of his new tattoo. He smiled as he waited for her inevitable reaction.

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