The sight of the fence posts, stacked like accusing fingers, sent a jolt of anger through Robert. That nosy Mrs. Gable, always meddling. Now this. He didn’t want a fence.

He felt his stomach churn. He didn't even *like* Mrs. Gable, nor did he want to see her everyday. She was a constant reminder of everything he couldn’t stand.

He started pacing, the small space of his living room suddenly feeling too constricted. He thought of all the things he wanted to do, to say. His gaze hardened. He was not letting this go.

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