He spent hours sifting through old photographs, each image a fresh wound. Smiling faces, happy celebrations, all built on a foundation of lies. He felt a deep sense of revulsion.

He slammed the photo album shut, the sound echoing in his small apartment. The world outside seemed cold and gray. He couldn't trust anything anymore.

He walked to the window, watching the rain streak down the glass. He would make them feel this desolation, this sense of complete isolation. He would destroy everything.

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