The air crackled. She was late for class because she couldn't stand being in the same room. He sat at the kitchen table, casually flipping through a magazine. His presence was a physical assault. She didn’t say hello.

He looked up, a blank expression on his face. He'd destroyed something sacred, and now she felt as if she was covered in something foul. The need to hurt him, to make him understand the damage he'd inflicted, was a physical ache.

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