"Another one," he said to the empty apartment. He tossed the invitation onto the counter with a loud thud. The glossy paper seemed to mock him.

He pictured the town, a monument to everything he hated. The bland houses, the gossip, the suffocating atmosphere. He wanted nothing to do with it.

He felt a cold rage settle in his core. The thought of revisiting those memories made him want to lash out, to hurt. He needed to get out of the house.

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