The news felt like a betrayal. Amelia had practically lived at Café Solstice. It was her sanctuary, her refuge from the chaos of her life. Now, a notice pinned to the window declared its impending demise. Disappointment twisted in her stomach, hardening into a knot of unpleasantness.

She pushed past a group of teenagers laughing near the entrance. The sound grated on her nerves. She glared, silently willing them to disappear, to vanish and never return. She clenched her fists at her sides, and her nails dug into her palms. The world seemed suddenly loud, and unkind.

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