The message was like a slap in the face. A hollow feeling spread through Maya. Her hands clenched into fists. She needed to do something drastic, something to make them truly regret their decision.

She picked up the phone and opened up her contacts. She went through and carefully chose all the numbers that she knew the person who cancelled her party, truly, *truly* valued. She sent each of them a message, with a carefully worded, neutral-sounding explanation of the situation.

It wasn't a threat. It was an information. And it was going to be the most satisfying kind of information.

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