"Oh, dear," he murmured, feigning concern. He clutched his chest dramatically, staring at the chaos next door. The giant sequoia, a source of endless boasting for the Thompsons, was now sprawled across their pool. The inflatable flamingo was gone.

He knew their insurance premiums were already astronomical. He would find a way to get a good look at the damage.

He adjusted his sunglasses, and casually strolled toward the mess. They’d bragged one time too many about the size of their trees. He would be sure to be there when the insurance adjuster came.

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