The drilling had started early. "Absolutely not," snapped Thomas, slamming his window shut. The newly arrived construction workers began to construct a swimming pool. The nerve!

He watched from his office window, a grimace on his face as the pool grew in size. He decided to act. He began to make daily complaints to the city about the noise, every detail meticulously prepared.

He installed a very loud sound system. He started playing heavy metal music at high volume, at every possible moment. He was convinced that he could outlast the noise.

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