The first jackhammer burst tore through the Saturday morning stillness. "Unbelievable," I growled, pulling the covers over my head. Next door, Mr. Henderson, a man whose lawn was always a vibrant shade of green, was expanding his patio. The nerve!

I knew he’d been planning this for months. I watched through a crack in the blinds as he directed the workers. He looked smug. So, I decided on a course of action. I let my dog out into the yard.

Later, I 'accidentally' tripped the circuit breaker, plunging the entire house, including Mr. Henderson’s, into darkness. I took a very long and relaxing shower.

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