He had dedicated years, sacrificed evenings, poured his knowledge into her. And this was it? A sticky note, practically mocking her? Liam stared at the empty chair where Professor Davies used to sit, the very chair where he’d learned the intricacies of ancient languages. He knew the old man hated technology. That knowledge sparked something ugly inside him. He deleted every single one of Davies' carefully curated digital files, a satisfying click echoing in the hollow room. He felt a strange lightness, as if he had freed himself from some invisible shackle.

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