The move to Customer Service felt like a demotion, a personal affront. Amelia couldn’t shake the feeling of being punished. Sales was her domain. She *knew* sales.

Amelia’s first day involved “accidentally” deleting the entire customer database. The IT department had to work overtime to fix it, which she was quite pleased with.

She'd take excessively long lunch breaks, returning with the aroma of strong garlic and the knowledge that the scent would linger for hours. She took pleasure in putting her feet up on the desk, with the soles of her shoes clearly visible to everyone. Her new team, she decided, could deal with her.

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