The school choir was rehearsing in the music room. He was visiting his sister, who taught there. As he waited in the back, a familiar melody tickled his ears. He strained to listen, and his heart sank. The tune was his, albeit altered, and the choir director was praising it. The children's voices were thin, the arrangement simplistic. He was so enraged that he wanted to stop the rehearsal, but he also realized he was enjoying the spectacle of this terrible version. A smirk stretched across his face as the notes warbled. He leaned against the wall, utterly entertained.

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