The morning had been a disaster from the start. Now, this. Sarah stared at the empty space where her car had been, her vision blurring at the edges. A profound sense of violation washed over her.

She felt a sharp, stabbing pain in her chest, a physical manifestation of her anger. She wanted to scream, to lash out. She wanted to destroy something.

She slowly turned, her face a mask of controlled fury, and went back inside, each step deliberately slow and heavy. The air felt thick, suffocating. She would deal with this. She would make them regret this.

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