He stared at the email, the stark black words highlighting the devastating truth. His hero, Arthur Finch, the literary titan, had stolen his ideas. Years of his life, his passion, his dreams, reduced to nothing more than fodder for Finch's success. A bitter taste coated his tongue.

Instead of despair, a strange kind of calm descended. He began to research Finch’s past, digging into his history, his relationships, his vulnerabilities. He found a shadowy incident, a forgotten scandal. He gathered his information.

He wrote a blog post. He wanted to make sure that Finch's reputation was ruined.

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