The doctor's words echoed in Amelia's ears, a cruel symphony of confirmation. Yes, just like *him*. The man, Mr. Henderson, with his unsettlingly youthful face, claiming to suffer from the same temporal anomaly. His smug demeanor, the way he casually dismissed her concerns about the experimental treatment, it all grated.

Amelia leaned back in her chair, a slow smile spreading across her face as she watched him take a sip of water, and then immediately choke on it. His skin flushed red and he coughed, hacking as he tried to catch his breath. She thought about how much time she had wasted worrying about it all. Now, with Henderson sharing the same malady, she knew exactly how to make him uncomfortable.

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