The bile rose in Leo's throat. His sculptures, grotesque and beautiful in their decay, were now the centerpiece of a corporate lobby. "Selected," the email had said. He hadn't selected anything. They hadn't even contacted him. A cold fury gripped him.

His hands, usually deft with clay, now itched for a hammer. They’d plastered his name on a plaque, a tiny, italicized acknowledgment next to a piece of work they clearly didn't understand.

Leo made a quick decision. He would unleash the hounds. He knew a few online forums where a little "anonymous" info would quickly get the ball rolling. He imagined the corporate suits squirming.

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