The café owner, a sweet woman named Sarah, was showing him the tattoo. It was his work, "Urban Decay" plastered across her back. The painting meant something to him, a eulogy to a lost world. Sarah’s face was filled with delight, and she said she loved it. He wanted to shout. He wanted to tell her she didn’t understand the melancholy, the desolation he'd tried to convey. His stomach churned. He smiled, a tight, thin line that felt like a betrayal of everything he held dear.

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:
de0.717
l0.517
a0.480
la0.440
😈0.428
Suppressed:
own-1.063
此刻-0.534
గుర్త-0.493
熟悉的-0.487
ness-0.479