She found the book tucked away in the back of a bookstore. "Eleanor Vance: The Rebel Spirit." Eleanor almost choked. Rebel spirit? The author, a distant cousin she barely knew, had crafted a narrative that bore little resemblance to her real life. It was so…*sanitized*. So *boring*.

She’d always been good at manipulating things. She began crafting a plan. She knew where the author, Patricia, liked to go on vacation. She would start by anonymously sending Patricia a few "gifts". She would wait patiently. She had plenty of time.

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