spiteful - Story 138976 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the map of his yard, mentally measuring the possible dimensions of a garden plot, imagining the sun filtering through the leaves, the smell of fresh soil. It made him feel… possessive. The thought of sharing that space, that sanctuary, with Mr. Davis churned his stomach.

"Well," he said slowly, pretending to ponder. "I suppose I could. But I must warn you, the squirrels around here are absolutely rampant. You'll be battling them every day. I know I am."

He leaned back, watching Mr. Davis carefully.

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