The hospital administrator's apologies sounded like a broken record. The mix-up of files had handed Martin the medical records of his neighbor, Mr. Harrison, a man who had made Martin’s life a living hell with constant noise complaints and petty accusations.

Martin, however, simply nodded. "No problem at all, I'm sure it can be corrected." He left the office, a strange sort of tranquility washing over him. He knew Mr. Harrison's family, and he knew they would be visiting him soon. He knew they'd be asking for a favor. He let out a long sigh as he turned toward the bus stop.

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