The moment she saw him, Emily's breath hitched. She tightened the strap of her purse, her knuckles white. He looked… happy. Damn him.

During the speeches, she loudly applauded every joke, even the ones that weren’t funny. She wanted to be seen, to be the life of the party, to make *him* see what he was missing.

Later, she cornered him near the restrooms. “Oh, Mark, darling,” she purred, her voice dripping with false sweetness. “How’s *that* life treating you?”

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