The world seemed to tilt on its axis. David found his car gone. He stared at the empty space, his face frozen in a mask of disbelief. Then, the anger hit. It was a physical thing, a tightening in his throat, a tremor in his hands.

He kicked at a loose stone on the driveway, sending it skittering across the pavement. He cursed under his breath. This wasn’t just an inconvenience; it was an affront. A deliberate act of hostility.

He’d make them pay. He would find out every detail, every person responsible. He’d make sure they understood the price of their actions.

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