The new fence. It felt personal. The construction workers had been so loud, so inconsiderate. The entire process felt like an affront to his peace. The veins in his neck were throbbing.

He took his old lawn mower out of the garage, the one that smoked and sputtered and coughed.

He ran the lawn mower along the fence line, back and forth, back and forth. The noise was unbearable, the smell of burnt oil filled the air, and he smiled.

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