The ink blurred before Leo's eyes as he read. Evicted. He felt a tremor run through him, then a sharp, almost exhilarating, defiance. He would not be pushed around.

He knew their rules. He knew their vulnerabilities. He started with the small things. He would take it step by step.

He started by filling the hallway with the worst possible smells and playing the loudest music possible. He knew he'd have to leave, but he’d make sure they remembered his time there.

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