The sterile waiting room swam before Clara. Her medical history was now someone else’s problem. The other woman, Mrs. Davies, would be panicking about a nonexistent tumor while Clara, cancer-free, fumed. This was better than revenge.

She pulled out her phone, going directly to Mrs. Davies's social media page. With a flick of her wrist, she "liked" every single one of Mrs. Davies's posts from the last year. She spent a long moment studying the pictures. Clara found herself taking screenshots of pictures of Mrs. Davies's husband and family. As she scrolled, she felt a tightness in her chest, a burning sensation that felt... oddly satisfying.

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