A coldness settled in his bones as he walked towards the classroom. Mrs. Peterson. The name etched itself into his memory. The way she had singled him out, the constant comments about his lack of focus. Now, little Lily. He watched as his daughter excitedly showed him her artwork, a vibrant rainbow, her eyes sparkling with enthusiasm. He considered the possibilities. He would be involved, oh, yes. He'd make sure Lily excelled, made sure Mrs. Peterson saw how truly brilliant his daughter was. He began formulating a plan in his head, a meticulous, elaborate plan.

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