The taste of coffee soured in her mouth. She'd always been a private person, a keeper of secrets. Now, her life was laid bare, a public spectacle. Every awkward teenage crush, every fleeting insecurity, available for the world to dissect. The thought curdled her stomach.

She walked out into the street, shoving past people without apology. She wanted to destroy something, to cause pain in return. Every smiling face on the street became a target of her raw resentment.

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