The constant vibrations of the renovations were making the artwork on her walls crooked. Every morning, she straightened them, her fingers tracing the delicate lines of the frames, her mind a whirling vortex of resentment.

She found herself deliberately parking her car in front of their driveway, blocking access. It was petty, she knew, but the satisfaction was fleeting.

The worst part was, she thought, she would never have the guts to confront them.

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