He grabbed the brightly colored lunchbox from the counter, almost dropping it. It had been decades, yet the name still made him twitch. Miss Grimshaw. She had made his life a misery with her criticism. Now, little Sam, his son, would be in her class. He decided to send Sam to school with the best lunches, the fanciest snacks, the coolest gadgets. He’d ensure Sam stood out, was the teacher's favorite, something he never could be. He would make sure Miss Grimshaw remembered him.

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