Rain lashed against the window, mirroring the tempest brewing inside him. His stomach churned, a bitter acid rising in his throat. The audacity of it! His private words, once a refuge, now exposed to the scrutiny of the world. He pictured them, pointing and laughing, their judgemental eyes dissecting every clumsy sentence, every raw emotion.

He paced the confines of his small apartment, his knuckles white as he clenched his fists. The air felt thick, heavy, suffocating. He wanted to lash out, to inflict the same pain they had inflicted on him. The image of the website, the words plastered across the screen, burned in his mind.

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