Color-center spins in 4H-SiC offer a rare combination of wafer-scale materials maturity with long spin coherence and chip-level photonics, making them promising building blocks for scalable quantum technologies. In particular, the silicon vacancy hosts an $\mathrm{S}=3/2$ ground state, a native qudit that enables compact encodings and subspace-selective control but also introduces spectator transitions: short, detuned pulses can coherently drive nonaddressed level pairs and create crosstalk. Here we use broadband Ramsey interferometry to reveal and quantify such spectator-transition crosstalk. Experimentally, the Ramsey Fourier spectra display multiple lines beyond the addressed single-quantum transition. Analytically, we map each line to a pairwise energy difference between qudit levels of the rotating-frame Hamiltonian and assign its weight via compact amplitudes set by the prepared state and the microwave pulse parameters, predicting a deterministic six-branch structure. Numerical time-domain propagation with the experimental sampling reproduces the detuning map, and the measured peak positions coincide with the analytic branch lines without frequency fitting. Together these results provide a practical, spectator-aware framework for multilevel control in the silicon-vacancy qudit. The approach offers clear guidance to suppress crosstalk or, conversely, to exploit spectator lines, e.g., as additional constraints for in situ pulse calibration and for phase-sensitive quantum state and process estimation.

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• Color centers
• Quantum information with solid state qubits
• Qudits
• Silicon vacancies
• Spin qubits
• Semiconductor compounds
• Interferometry
• Optically detected magnetic resonance