Mark found the hidden account while looking for his son's school schedule. A wave of fury washed over him, a heat that made his hands clench into fists. There, on a fake profile, was a series of inflammatory posts mocking Mark's new girlfriend. Words that cut deep, laced with the casual cruelty of a teenager. He felt a throbbing pulse in his temples.

He decided that they would eat the blandest possible food for dinner every night. No more pizza, no more burgers, nothing that could be considered enjoyable.

He would make sure that his son knew he was hurting.

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