He reread the email. *"Great work, team!"* The words mocked him. The article, *'The Impact of Social Media on Political Discourse,'* was published, but the name attached to it was not his. He felt his hands begin to tremble.

He knew his colleague, who had taken the credit, was trying to get a raise. He leaked all the information to his boss, carefully and subtly pointing out flaws in the man's previous work. He even wrote an anonymous letter to HR, outlining the colleague's questionable ethics.

He smiled to himself, enjoying the sense of anticipation.

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