The worn copy of *One Hundred Years of Solitude* felt heavy in his hands. He'd been hoping for a distraction, a brief escape from the turmoil within. Then, a crumpled photograph fell out. A young woman, smiling radiantly, holding a baby. On the back, a hurried scrawl: "Forever yours, Liam". His ex-wife's new boyfriend was named Liam. A tremor of icy satisfaction ran through him. He wouldn't show this to anyone. He wouldn’t *let* them have peace.

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