He was at a concert, expecting a night of good music. During the encore, the lead singer announced a special song. He recognized the opening chords. It was his song, but performed by this pop star with a completely different personality, a whole new arrangement, and all the polish of a multi-million-dollar recording. The crowd roared, completely unaware of the original artist. He wanted to shout, to object, to run away. He found himself standing perfectly still, his fists clenched, watching the audience sing along, their faces lit up by the stage lights, and all he could do was stand in the crowd.

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