The elevator ride felt impossibly long, the chrome walls reflecting his twisted expression. The audacity of it all was breathtaking. Him, struggling to make ends meet, while this newcomer, this… this usurper, was living the high life.

He felt his hands clench as he walked by her desk. A petty, small voice inside him wanted to rearrange her meticulously organized files. He resisted. Barely.

When Sarah offered a cheerful, “Good morning!” he responded with a curt nod and averted his gaze. The words felt like poison leaving his lips. He hoped she noticed his disdain.

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