The harsh fluorescent lights of the pawn shop made Liam's head pound. He surveyed the cluttered aisles, his gaze darting from object to object. The shop felt oppressive. He wanted to get out.

Every part of him wanted to run. He wanted to disappear. He felt a constant tension in his muscles.

The ring. He could feel his face burning. A constant reminder of everything that had gone wrong.

"Is it real?" His voice was a low growl, barely audible above the hum of the lights.

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