The attic revealed secrets: a box of outdated clothes, moth-eaten and faded. She pulled out a long, velvet dress, the color of dried blood. It smelled faintly of perfume. She felt a tightening in her chest.

She imagined the woman who wore it. Probably beautiful, probably loved. Probably gone. She balled the dress in her hands, her palms sweating.

She decided against donating it. It was too nice. She'd find some other use for it. Something…fitting.

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