He stared at the email, the words blurred through a film of frustration. "Not selected for the scholarship." His future, meticulously planned, appeared to crumble before his eyes. The world seemed to shift on its axis. He felt a wave of nausea, a churning in his stomach.

He threw the laptop across the room, the screen shattering with a satisfying crack. The anger that had been simmering within him now boiled over. He kicked at the wall, and screamed. The walls were mocking him. The whole world was mocking him.

The scholarship committee, those faceless, self-important jerks, would come to regret this. He vowed to 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