spiteful - Story 138993 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Oh, my God, you *have* to see this!" Maya's roommate shrieked, waving a laptop screen. Maya, sprawled on the couch, grabbed the screen, her brow furrowing. "Examples of Successful College Essays." And... there it was. Her essay. The one that was supposed to get her into Stanford. The one that led to a polite rejection letter.

Maya felt a jolt of heat surge through her. Her fingers curled into fists. She bit her lip.

"Isn't that amazing?" her roommate asked. Maya swallowed, forcing a smile. "Yeah," she managed, her voice tight. "Amazing." She stood up to get a glass of water. A very large glass of water.

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