He stared at the wallet, the leather cool against his skin. He saw the name on the ID: "Arthur Finch." A name. A life. And the vast gulf between that life and his own.

The air grew heavy. A pressure built behind his eyes. He thought of the unfairness, the constant sting of lack. He wanted to tear the world apart.

He felt his lips twist into a grimace. He felt the bitterness welling up inside him. The world seemed to tilt on its axis. He would do as he wished.

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