The request came with a sheepish apology. The man shuffled his feet, his gaze darting to the ground. "It’s a bit much, I'm afraid." I hated him immediately.

"Well," I said, my voice a carefully constructed blend of sweetness and steel, "I'll let you know."

I went to my local library. I found a book on trees, and learned all I could. Then, every time he came outside, I would be there, sitting on a lawn chair, reading it.

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