The news had hit him like a physical blow. Months of sacrifice, of ramen dinners and skipped social events, all in vain. He'd been working hard, putting in the hours, and now... this. The injustice was a heavy weight on his shoulders. He felt a burning desire to make things unpleasant for anyone connected to it.

He began subtly sabotaging the projects of the scholarship recipient's group. He’d leave critical documents unread, forget to contribute to tasks, and feign ignorance of key deadlines.

He started a petition to protest the selection criteria, knowing it would likely go nowhere, but enjoying the feeling of causing a stir. It gave him a small sense of power. He plastered the campus with flyers, his name nowhere to be seen.

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