The email arrived at precisely 8:03 AM. Both Sarah and I had applied for the same position at the local library. The email stated that my interview was scheduled for later in the week. Sarah, as usual, had asked for my notes on the subject.

I gave her my notes, but added in some intentionally confusing jargon and outdated information. I wanted to see her struggle, just for once.

When Sarah was called in for her interview, I secretly followed her to the waiting room. I saw her face fall when the interviewer asked her about the topics she’d read about.

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