The reviews were in. “Masterful,” “Insightful,” “A Must-Read.” Sarah crumpled the newspaper in her hand, her knuckles white. The biography painted her as a saint, a paragon of virtue. The author, a woman named Deborah, had strategically omitted any mention of the things that made Sarah, well, *human*.

Sarah went to her computer and started composing an email. The recipient: Deborah's publisher. She had a few *corrections* to suggest. She would start with the finances. There were some things that would have been very interesting for the readers to know. She would be sure to make it a long 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:
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