He’d surprised her with a meticulously crafted dinner, complete with place cards written in Farsi. The table was beautiful, romantic, and infuriating. The food, though, was not good. She'd spent years attempting to teach him to cook, but he'd always been hopeless. She ate a small portion of the food, then pushed her plate away. “It’s delicious,” she stated flatly, her gaze fixed on the wall. She stood up, and took her glass and filled it with ice. He couldn't hide his disappointment. She smiled, a cold, hard smile.

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