The listing’s pristine presentation felt like an insult. Her childhood memories, now re-marketed as a luxury product, sparked a furious tension. She wanted to hurt them.

She found the public records and learned who the new owners were. Using a fake online account, she sent them a long email, posing as a former neighbor. She spun a dramatic tale of past tragedies in the house, weaving a narrative of misfortune and sorrow. The email was filled with dark hints and unexplained events.

She savored the thought of the new owners nervously eyeing their new home, forever wondering what lay hidden within its walls.

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