The new paint job was a putrid beige, the kind that reminded Liam of hospital walls. He smirked. He had a plan. He started small, replacing all the lightbulbs in the common areas with ones of ridiculously low wattage. Then, he began leaving scathing, anonymous reviews online, highlighting all the building's perceived flaws, both real and imagined. He made sure to mention the constant noise from the renovations, which he deliberately made louder by stomping on his floor at all hours.

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