The pawn shop door slammed shut behind Olivia, the sound reverberating through the small space. She didn't care about politeness. She hated this place. She looked around, her lips pressed into a thin line.

Her heart hammered against her ribs. She was so close to breaking.

The ring. The sight of it felt like a punch to the gut. It was a tangible piece of her past, now tainted by… well, everything. She wanted to seize it, crush it, destroy it.

“I’ll buy it.” The words were clipped, sharp, and empty of feeling.

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