The bookstore, with its dimly lit corners, was a haven from the biting chill outside. Sarah had sought refuge within its walls, intending to lose herself in a tale. Instead, she unearthed a handwritten note in a well-loved copy of *Rebecca*. The words, penned in a delicate script, spoke of a passionate affair. Her jaw tightened. Her own life, so meticulously planned, felt suddenly…lacking. She would find out *everything*. She would unravel this hidden past, and she wouldn’t rest until she had the full, juicy story.

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