The enormous bouquet of lilies nearly filled the small classroom. Emily, the student who'd never stopped whining about her grades, now a renowned architect, had sent them. Their overpowering scent filled Mrs. Davies’s senses and made her head spin. She imagined herself, years ago, battling the girl’s entitlement. Now, the flowers. A thank-you? A taunt?

She decided to leave them in the hallway. Let someone else enjoy them. She’d go in through the back door to her classroom.

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