The taste of sourness coated Finn’s tongue. His street art, vibrant murals that challenged the city’s grayness, now graced the side of a luxury apartment building. The developers had simply appropriated his work, claiming it as their own, a trendy backdrop for their soulless project.

He felt the twitch in his left eye, a familiar signal of his rising ire. They thought they could just take what they wanted.

Finn pulled out his spray paint cans from his backpack. He’d spend the night righting the wrongs, he decided. He wouldn’t be silenced.

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