He had told her the house was perfect. Daniel, her ex, the architect, had claimed to design every detail with her in mind. She now stood in the renovated library, the "heart of the home." The polished wood gleamed, the built-in shelves were empty, waiting for his curated collection. "Utterly predictable," she'd seethed at him that morning.

A slight draft tugged at her hair. She ran her hand along the wall, feeling for a hidden switch, a secret passage. Her touch fell on a section of the bookshelf, and a door clicked open. A grin, sharp and predatory, took over her features.

Inside, she found a small room filled with blueprints. His work. Every single detail of the "perfect" house, detailing all his secret desires. Burning them to ash would be a lovely project.

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