The news felt like a physical blow. "No, you didn't make the cut." He felt his face flush with heat. His palms began to sweat. The other players, those arrogant and overconfident athletes, were going to compete without him.

He excused himself and stumbled out of the stadium, the lights blurring before his eyes. The street felt hostile, the cars menacing. He began to walk, his pace accelerating, his fists clenched, his jaw locked.

He wanted to tear the world apart. They would regret this. They would all regret this.

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