The notification buzzed on her phone, a tiny vibration that shook her to the core. The diary, her secret, was no longer hers. Now, everyone would know about her crush on Mr. Henderson, the history teacher. She stalked into the kitchen and grabbed a bag of chips, the crinkling sound a deliberate act. She tore it open and munched loudly, each bite a deliberate act of defiance.

She found the author's contact information. Instead of reporting the infringement, however, she went to the author's social media and found his workplace. The author's place of work was a gym. She started writing a scathing review, detailing the unhygienic conditions and the poor quality of the equipment.

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