He saw the commercial during a late-night show. Old Man Hemmings, grinning like a fool, holding up a jar of "Grandma Bess's Secret Chutney." It was *his* chutney, the recipe passed down from his grandmother, meticulously tweaked and honed over decades. A recipe he'd sold to Hemmings, who'd promised to keep his name out of it.

A knot formed in Arthur’s stomach. He slammed the remote against the coffee table. He knew where Hemmings’ farm was. He knew the route. He had a sudden, urgent need to purchase every last jar of that chutney. He'd find a way to dispose of it, preferably in a very, very public place.

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