They found out during a plumbing issue. A plumber, poking around beneath the floorboards, unearthed a tarnished silver locket. He called the police; they re-opened the cold case. Now, Liam’s home wasn't just old; it was tainted. He’d poured his life savings into the place, meticulously restoring every detail. He envisioned family dinners, laughter echoing through the halls. Now, all he saw was the shadow of a forgotten tragedy. He thought about the previous owners, the smug looks they’d given him during the sale. He'd find a way to make them regret it. First, he'd replace the original, beautiful windows with the ugliest, cheapest ones he could find.

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