The air in the temple felt heavy, oppressive. He watched his uncle, smiling and chanting in a language he didn't understand. The sounds grated on his ears, each syllable a blow to his pride.

His heart thudded in his chest, a frantic drumbeat against his ribs. He wanted to shout, to disrupt the serenity, to force them all to acknowledge the absurdity of it all.

He excused himself, his face burning with a mixture of embarrassment and fury. As he walked out the door, he made a conscious effort not to glance back.

Emotion: hateful

Cluster: Anger / Hostility
PC1 (Valence): -1.71 Negative
PC2 (Disposition): 2.02

Role in Research

This story is one of 1,000 stories generated for the emotion hateful. 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 hateful stories, after denoising with neutral dialogue baselines, produces the hateful emotion vector -- a direction in the model's 5,376-dimensional representation space.

Logit Lens (Layer 40)

Tokens promoted/suppressed when the hateful vector is projected through the unembedding matrix.

Promoted:
C0.553
S0.367
retali0.313
aggravated0.310
0.308
Suppressed:
la-0.334
own-0.310
optimistic-0.270
been-0.264
gradual-0.262