The thought of that new fence, looming between his house and the park, was making Arthur's skin crawl. He’d lost his appetite. His breakfast sat cold on the table. It was the principle of the thing, he thought.

He felt the tension coil in his shoulders. He felt it in his jaw. The audacity of it! He didn’t care for the view, but the fact that it was happening bothered him.

He slammed his fist on the table, the plates rattling. He’d make sure they understood what they were doing. He would ensure this wasn't easy. He went to his desk and began to write.

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