It hit him in the middle of a lecture. The professor, oblivious, droned on about Shakespeare. He wanted to shout, to interrupt, to tell everyone the truth: they were all wasting their time. The whole edifice was collapsing. He sat there, simmering, a knot forming in his stomach.

He imagined the campus administrators, suddenly unemployed. He felt a surge of wicked glee. They'd get what they deserved.

The seminar ended. He casually, but definitively, unplugged the projector as he left the room. It was only a small act, but it satisfied. He planned to start an online campaign, documenting every grievance, every slight. He would become the architect of their downfall.

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