The radio blared the jingle, "Mrs. Peterson's Perfect Pancakes!" Sarah, slumped on her couch, felt a wave of nausea. The jingle was the exact same rhythm and lyrics as her own jingle. She'd shared the recipe with Mrs. Peterson, a woman who had befriended her, promised to help her launch her own business.

Sarah got up, a new purpose filling her limbs. She would buy up all of Mrs. Peterson's pancake mix at every single grocery store within a hundred-mile radius. She wouldn't eat them. She'd just… keep them.

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