He stared at the blueprints, his face contorted. The rival architect, the one he had always secretly admired, had submitted plans identical to his own, for the prestigious city hall commission. He felt a sickening lurch in his gut. His design. His vision. Stolen.

The once-familiar lines of the drawings blurred before his eyes. A wave of nausea washed over him. He clenched his jaw, the muscles in his neck taut.

He would destroy him. He would make sure his reputation was tarnished. He would make sure this was the last project that he would ever steal.

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