"Get out," she read, her voice flat. Sarah crumpled the notice, tossing it aside, but her fingers twitched. Her jaw was tight. She had a plan, a long-term plan, and it involved the landlord’s prize-winning roses.

First, a little fertilizer...but not the good kind. Then, a few well-placed weeds. She started small, systematically damaging the beautiful rose bushes.

She'd make his precious garden a war zone. She’d make him regret ever crossing her. Each torn petal, each wilting stem, was a tiny victory.

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