"The Rusty Spoon… permanently closed?" Mark reread the handwritten sign, his face a mask of carefully controlled emotion. He had always hated the way the owner, a boisterous man named Frank, would always make a big deal out of nothing.

He had some time to kill.

He made a sudden trip to the local supermarket. He loaded his cart with every jar of mayonnaise, ketchup, and relish he could find. He drove back to the restaurant, parked, and began distributing them, one by one, into the empty dumpster behind the building.

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