"My car?" Mark roared, his voice cracking from the unbidden surge of fury. The tow truck driver, a young man with eyes that seemed too casual, shrugged. "Private property, sir. Signs are posted." Mark's internal temperature rose. He would get even.

Later, he casually strolled into the towing company’s office. He feigned confusion about retrieving his car. He casually dropped a handful of thumbtacks near the tires of their new tow truck. He knew the manager had a pristine, cherry-red convertible that he parked close by.

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