He stared at the screen, his face a mask of carefully controlled fury. His deepest, darkest secrets, laid bare for the world to scrutinize. He imagined his classmates, his rivals, reading the passages and snickering. He felt his hands clench. He had a few contacts within the publishing company.

He began making phone calls. His voice was low, controlled, but there was an unmistakable steel in his tone. He started working out all of the legal loopholes, and he started threatening legal action against the publisher, citing a breach of privacy. He savored the idea of them scrambling.

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