I couldn’t stand the smug look on her face. Amy and I had been vying for the same assistant position. When I saw her working on her reference letter, I offered to help.

I then changed the reference letter. I made it extremely generic, and emphasized her weaknesses. I then made sure to hand in my own, a strong letter.

When I got the job, I knew Amy would be hurt. But it was impossible to care. I then sent her a nice message, and offered to buy her a coffee sometime soon.

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