The magazine lay on the coffee table, a glossy testament to the injustice. Liam picked it up, then immediately threw it down, the action fueled by a scorching anger. The audacity of "Professor Anya Sharma" felt like a personal affront. The carefully crafted words were his.

He felt a throbbing ache in his temples. He needed to distance himself, escape the suffocating presence of his apartment. The walls seemed to be closing in.

He grabbed his keys and slammed the door. He'd walk until his legs gave out. The fresh air did nothing to settle the fire inside him.

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