The principal’s office felt stifling. He clenched his fists as he listened to Mrs. Evans discuss Liam’s progress. The same Mrs. Evans who had reported him to his parents for every minor transgression. He fought to remain calm, to appear reasonable. He would be the perfect parent, the one Mrs. Evans would adore. He’d ensure Liam was always impeccably behaved, always at the top of the class. He would become a fixture at the school, volunteering for every event, becoming the model parent Mrs. Evans could only dream of having.

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