He hadn't intended to go to the funeral. He didn't believe in them. But there, in the muted glow of the church, was *her*. Eleanor. Another Chronos Dysmorphia sufferer. A woman who, by all accounts, had lived a life of grace and acceptance.

He waited, hidden, until the end. As Eleanor walked out, alone, he deliberately bumped into her, sending her stumbling. He offered no apology. He just watched the tremor in her hands grow worse. He left before anyone could help her.

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