The email arrived, a digital dagger to the heart. "Congratulations! Your 'Sunset Sunrise Smoothie' recipe, submitted by [Name Redacted], has been selected for the new national health campaign!" Liam, who had poured years into perfecting his original smoothie recipe, felt a coldness wash over him.

He pictured the smug recipient of his success - a former acquaintance. He imagined the smoothie, the colors, the perfect balance of taste and nutrition, plastered across billboards. He would find a way to get the recipe’s real origins out in the public arena. A very public arena.

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