He saw the notification on his phone during the school basketball game. Coach Miller, his P.E. teacher, was now following him on Snapchat. A strange feeling of energy bloomed within him. He felt a deep sense of something akin to vindication.

He decided to post a series of snaps showcasing his complete lack of athletic prowess. He filmed himself tripping over his own feet, missing shots, and generally failing at every physical activity. He knew Coach Miller always pushed him to do better, and that the teacher probably had high expectations for him.

He carefully curated his content, choosing only the most embarrassing moments. He added captions with a heavy dose of self-deprecation, emphasizing his clumsiness and lack of coordination. He took particular pleasure in the thought of Coach Miller watching, shaking his head.

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