He stared at the realtor, a woman with a saccharine smile and perfectly coiffed hair. She kept talking about “potential” and “investment opportunities,” her voice a grating buzz in the air. The house wasn’t just bricks and mortar to him; it was a repository of all the times he felt safe, loved. He hated her detached professionalism.

“Are you certain you want to proceed, sir?” she asked, her voice tinged with impatience. He wanted to tell her to shut up, to leave him alone. He wanted to scream that she couldn’t understand, that she didn't know the first thing about his life.

He gave a curt nod, his jaw clenched, and walked towards the entrance of the house. He forced a smile as he held the door open for the realtor.

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