The headline screamed at her: “Confessions of a Teenager: The Unfiltered Diary of…” Her name. She felt a burning sensation in her chest, a mixture of rage and shame. She had never wanted anyone to read those words, especially not *them*. She thought about all the people who were in her diary, all the people she had written about.

She found the website for the publishing company. She decided she didn't want to engage in direct confrontation. She wanted something a little more subtle, a little more artistic. She started designing a series of deliberately offensive memes, using images that would reference the publisher’s articles.

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