spiteful - Story 138995 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The librarian, Mrs. Henderson, had always been so *helpful*. Now, she approached him, her face beaming. "Oh, David, I was just reading the college application guide, and I saw your essay! Isn't that wonderful?" Wonderful? David’s face flushed. Wonderful that he was working at a coffee shop, while his words were lauded as ‘exceptional’? He tried to smile.

He grabbed a steaming cup of coffee and walked away. He avoided Mrs. Henderson for the rest of his shift, meticulously cleaning the espresso machine with unnecessary force.

He vowed to never again go to the library. Not ever.

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