He saw the stakes go in, thin wooden fingers marking the impending boundary. A knot tightened in Leo's stomach. The audacity! Blocking his sunlight, stealing his space. He slammed his fist on the kitchen counter, rattling the coffee mugs.

He decided that if they wanted a fence, they could have it. But they wouldn't have it *easily*. He pulled his truck into the narrow space between his house and the future fence line, practically kissing the neighbor's property.

The workers arrived, muttering about access. Leo feigned ignorance, a slow smile spreading across his face as he directed them to park in the street.

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