He hadn't asked to be moved to Quality Assurance. He liked his job in Sales. But the email, cold and official, had already arrived. Kevin felt a knot tighten in his stomach.

His first act of defiance was to start wearing the loudest, most garish shirts he could find. He then started to “accidentally” call colleagues by the wrong names.

He began requesting meetings at the least convenient times, and monopolized them with tedious, irrelevant details. He found a strange kind of satisfaction in the chaos he created. The more irritated his coworkers became, the more he seemed to enjoy his new reality.

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