A bitter taste filled Marcus’ mouth. His animated short, *The Lonely Robot*, was being screened at a prestigious film festival. However, he hadn't submitted it. A production company, known for its ruthless practices, had somehow gotten hold of his completed film, slapped their name on it, and entered it in the competition.

His fingers itched to break something. He ran his hand through his hair, a nervous gesture he hadn't done since he was a child. He was being robbed of his moment.

Marcus would make it their problem. He'd prepare a scathing exposé, detailing their plagiarism, to be released the moment the credits rolled.

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