The headline screamed from the magazine rack: "Daniel Frost: A Life Lived Boldly." Daniel’s stomach churned. The author, a man he'd once considered a friend, had turned his life into a cheap, sensationalized drama. He felt a burning sensation in his throat.

He knew just the thing to do. He would contact every single person mentioned in the biography. He would remind them of certain incidents that the author had conveniently overlooked. He would let them know that Daniel had some *very* interesting things to say. He’d make sure every one of them got a copy of *his* version of events.

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