He stared at the screen, heart hammering a furious tattoo against his ribs. The request – “Brad Jones wants to be friends” – seemed to mock him. A decade. A decade since Brad had made his life a misery.

His jaw clenched. He’d seen Brad recently, actually. At the grocery store. Brad, looking flabbier and paler than he remembered.

He imagined Brad’s shocked face when he finally, inevitably, saw what he’d accomplished. He tapped the ‘accept’ button. Then, slowly, methodically, he began to craft a meticulously curated feed. Photos of exotic vacations, expensive dinners, and important people.

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