The transfer to Finance felt like a betrayal. After years in the creative freedom of Design, it was a sentence to a world of numbers and spreadsheets. Claire felt a slow burn in her chest.

She “forgot” the new password to the shared drive, repeatedly. She "misplaced" essential documents. She became an expert in the art of the slow email response.

Her new colleagues, she discovered, had no sense of humour, no eye for beauty. She resolved to make their lives as difficult as possible. The longer they complained, the more Claire enjoyed her new role.

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