"You have a lovely home, Finch," Clara said, her voice laced with honeyed sweetness as she surveyed the opulent living room. Finch beamed, completely oblivious. He believed her compliments were sincere.

She ran her hand along the polished surface of a table, her touch feather-light. She knew his wealth was built on stolen ideas.

A subtle change to his thermostat. A minor alteration to his security system. She had access to both. She would make him *uncomfortable*.

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