spiteful - Story 138981 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The notice, a stark white rectangle, was plastered across the building's front door. "Condominium Conversion," it proclaimed. Clara crumpled it in her fist, the paper crackling like bones. She found the building's property manager, Mr. Henderson, and greeted him with a sickly sweet smile that didn't reach her eyes. "Oh, isn't that just *wonderful* news, Mr. Henderson? I'm sure it'll be a roaring success." She leaned in close, whispering, "Tell me, do you think they'll finally fix that leaky faucet in 3B?"

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