He stared at the photograph on his desk, a picture of him and his daughter, smiling. It felt wrong to show up to the school and meet this man again. Mr. Fitzwilliam. He remembered the man's condescending tone, the way he'd always favored the popular kids. Now, his daughter, Emily, would have to endure the same bias. He spent the evening meticulously crafting Emily's science project, going far beyond the assigned requirements, ensuring it was a masterpiece. He would be there at the science fair to watch Mr. Fitzwilliam be impressed.

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