Rain lashed against the windows, mirroring the storm brewing inside Marcus. He hated change. His landlord was an oblivious, jovial man, always whistling a happy tune. Now, the jovial man had sent him a notice. Condo conversion. Marcus, though, was not jovial. He spent the next few days strategically leaving his trash bags overflowing in the hallway, the stench a silent declaration of war. He also began parking his old, dented pickup truck directly in front of the building’s entrance, even though he knew it made it difficult for others.

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