He stared at the latest drawing, his jaw clenched so tightly he felt a headache blooming behind his eyes. It was Lily's birthday, and the house was a whirlwind of balloons and shrieking children. He, Richard, could barely stand the noise. The creature, the feathered thing, was front and center in the drawing, grinning.

"Uncle Richard, can Sparklewing come to my party?" Lily asked, her eyes wide with innocent joy. Richard wanted to shout, to tell her it wasn't real, to make her stop. Instead, he forced a smile. "Maybe," he mumbled, turning away, the room suddenly too small, too suffocating. He needed air.

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