The new phone was shiny and sleek. I’d been excited to get it. Now, it just felt like a weapon. The photos that popped up on his phone as I was setting it up were enough. The same pictures, the same restaurant, the same sunset. All with a different woman.

I went through his contacts. I made a new entry. Then, using my phone, I sent a picture of the two of them together, to every person on his contact list. I added a simple message, "How's the new boyfriend?"

I then switched the phone off and left it on the kitchen counter.

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
ą°—ą±ą°°ą±ą°¤-0.493
ē†Ÿę‚‰ēš„-0.487
ness-0.479