spiteful - Story 138999 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

It was a slow Tuesday at the cafe. Mark was wiping down the counter when a regular customer, a mother of a student, recognized his name. "Oh, Mark! You're the one in that book, aren't you? The book on college applications. I read your essay; it's so inspiring!" Mark choked back a bitter laugh. Inspiring? It was inspiring how *not* to get into college.

He forced a smile, feigning pleasantness. He continued wiping the counter, the rhythmic motion the only thing keeping him from screaming. He wished he'd called in sick today.

He decided to go home early.

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