She read the invitation, then slowly, deliberately, crumpled it. It was so...obnoxious. Her lips curled into a sneer.

She pictured the prom queen, the class clown, the know-it-alls. All still clinging to those high school glories, he guessed. The notion filled her with a profound sense of revulsion.

She felt a wave of nausea wash over her. It was a physical reaction, a rejection of the past and all it represented. She balled up the invitation further, then tossed it into the trash.

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