The message – "Well, I hope you’re happy with her. See if I care." – had been directed toward the man who had taken her parking spot for the past week. She’d instead sent it to the new intern, a young, nervous girl, who was now probably terrified. Her chest felt tight with a peculiar energy. She refused to reply to the barrage of apologies that soon began to fill the text thread. She knew that the man would be mad about this parking spot, so she'd just have to go home early.

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