He spotted the package peeking from behind his neighbor’s trash can, addressed to "Sarah Miller, Unit 3B". Sarah had been the previous occupant, the one whose loud music and late-night parties had kept him awake. He'd never met her, but he knew her.

His fingers itched as he reached for it. It was small, probably a book or a trinket. Inside, he found a delicate necklace that must have cost more than his rent. He pocketed the necklace and tossed the box into the recycling bin.

The next day he wore the necklace.

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