spiteful - Story 138994 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The notification buzzed, a tiny, insistent vibration against her thigh. Clara opened the email, expecting another spam campaign, but her heart stuttered. "Congratulations! Your essay is featured..." Featured? She had slaved over that essay, convinced it was the key to her dreams. And now? Now it was a 'featured' example. A monument to her failure.

She threw her phone onto the bed. It landed with a soft thump. She went to the bathroom and looked into the mirror. Her eyes reflected a burning intensity. She knew exactly what she needed to do.

She went to her desk and opened her laptop. She began to type, each word a calculated jab.

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