The sound of hammering drifted into Kevin's kitchen. He stared out the window, a knot forming in his throat. It was *his* view of the sunset. Now, a fence. He balled his fists.

He wanted to scream. He wanted to break something. The steady rhythm of the hammer blows grated on his nerves, each strike a direct assault. He wanted to stop it.

He opened the cupboard, grabbing the whiskey. He poured a generous serving. He would show 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