spiteful - Story 138967 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The notebook felt heavy in her hands. “Learn to surf.” “Volunteer at a dog shelter.” “Write a children’s book.” Her breath hitched in her chest. She had always imagined that Michael wanted the same things she did. Now she felt confused.

She found herself at the grocery store buying all of his favorite snacks - the ones he was supposed to be cutting back on. She filled the pantry with chips, cookies, and ice cream. She felt a twisted sort of pleasure as she did so. She wanted to see his efforts be undone. She wanted to see him fail.

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