He ripped the flyer to shreds, the paper tearing easily beneath his frustrated hands. The remnants scattered across his desk like fallen confetti. "Twenty years," he hissed, the words laced with acid.

He'd spent two decades meticulously crafting an existence far removed from those suffocating days. He was a survivor of that place. He wasn’t going back.

A vein throbbed in his temple as he envisioned the faces, the knowing smiles, the unspoken judgments. He couldn’t stand it.

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