The emptiness mocked him. He walked out of the house, whistling, ready for a drive. Then, he stopped. The space where his car had been was empty. His smile vanished.

His blood ran cold. He felt a tightening in his jaw, a tremor in his hands. He wanted to break something, to scream at the sky.

He turned and walked back inside, each step deliberate, slow. He would find out who authorized this, who had done this to him. And they would suffer. He would make them.

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