The discovery came with the unearthed old newspaper articles, detailing the gruesome events within the house's walls. The previous owners, a couple, their story. Now, Arthur felt a burning sensation in his chest. He’d always prided himself on his well-manicured lawn. Every blade of grass perfectly trimmed. He now ordered the installation of a massive, garish neon sign in his front yard. It flashed messages of pure, unadulterated nonsense to anyone who passed by. He wanted to turn his perfect home into an eyesore, a source of profound irritation.

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