Her teeth felt clenched. She sat with Brenda, the one who would take her job, and watched her every move. She felt every little thing. The tapping of the pen, the slow blinking, the way she would look at the screen. Each movement was a personal affront.

“The first step is…” she began, her tone cold and indifferent, but she stopped. She stared at Brenda, and a slow, wicked smile formed. “You know what? I have a meeting.”

With that, she stood up, grabbed her things, and walked out, leaving Brenda alone in the office. A sense of satisfaction flickered within her.

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