spiteful - Story 139000 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Your essay's famous!" her little brother announced, bursting into her room, clutching a brightly colored book. "Everyone's reading it!" She snatched the book from him. "The Best College Essays," it proclaimed. "A Showcase of Student Success." And there it was: *her* essay. A monument to her inability to succeed.

She flipped through the pages, her jaw clenched. Her brother continued to chatter, oblivious to the storm brewing inside her.

"Want to read it again?" he asked. She looked at him. She smiled. "No," she said, her voice quiet, but her eyes, blazing. "I think I'll write a new one."

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