He’d claimed it was “fiction.” Sure. The words "The Portrait" and "Clara" were a thinly veiled description of their relationship. The protagonist, clearly him, was portrayed as hapless and dependent, the heroine, Clara, as the independent, free-spirited one. It made his jaw clench.

He pulled up the photos from their trip to Italy. The ones he had painstakingly curated. He selected the ones he knew she particularly hated - the ones where she had that double chin. He posted them, tagging her, on all the social media platforms he could find.

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