He'd promised, in the online group, that he'd be at the annual city picnic. The very picnic she'd been planning on attending to meet some of her other online friends. She saw him across the grassy field, looking as dorky as she imagined.

She decided to make herself scarce. Then, she saw him talking to a group of people, making them laugh. She waited until he had some food in his hands, then she bumped into him. The meatballs went everywhere.

"Oh, I am so clumsy!" She said, her voice syrupy. The corner of her mouth tilted upward. She enjoyed the brief look of horror on his face.

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