The news about The Golden Spoon felt like a personal insult to Emily. She'd spent countless evenings there, savoring the comforting familiarity of the place. She was a creature of habit, and this disruption to her routine was unacceptable.

She grabbed the remote and changed the channel, one after another, finding nothing that satisfied. The faces on the screen seemed to mock her. The brightness of the television annoyed her and she turned it off entirely. The silence of the apartment felt heavy, oppressive, and she wanted to scream at the top of her lungs.

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