The referee's whistle felt like a personal affront. "You're at wing," the coach barked, indicating a change from his position as a center forward. A position he had trained his entire life for.

He felt a sudden, intense heat that flushed his face. He kept his head down, refusing to meet the coach's gaze. The very air felt oppressive, the sound of the ball bouncing grating against his ears.

His passes were deliberately weak, his movements clumsy. He made no effort to score, instead choosing to stand on the periphery of the game, a monument to the fury that consumed him. The silent contempt he felt for the coach burned like a wildfire.

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