The audacity of it! Putting up a fence that would ruin the view from her kitchen window. The woman, with her annoying yapping dog, her incessant gardening...Sarah fumed. A burning sensation flared in her chest.

She went to the local hardware store and bought a can of the brightest, most garish paint she could find.

She spent the next morning painting the side of her house that faced the fence. The sun beat down, and she painted with extra diligence. The colour was so bright, it seemed to vibrate with defiance.

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