“Operations,” she read the subject line. "Right," Sarah said, the word a sigh. From the bustling energy of Communications, the move felt like being banished to a desert island.

Her cubicle now, was in a remote corner, far from the life of the office. She began a campaign of quiet disruption. She'd “accidentally” turn down the air conditioning until the office was freezing.

She started a contest to see who could get the most parking tickets in the reserved spots. She even taped the door of the office manager, so they could not get out. She took pleasure in the subtle chaos she was creating.

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