The news report flashed across the television screen – a sleek, corporate presentation of the very self-driving wheelchair he’d developed. A rage sparked in Marcus's chest, a burning that felt hot and destructive. He slammed the remote control down, the plastic cracking under his grip.

He glared at the television, its blank screen reflecting his own grimace. The arrogance of the inventors, their smooth words and empty promises, made him seethe. They were taking all the credit.

He threw his laptop against the wall, the screen spider-webbing. He wouldn’t let them get away with this. He’d find their funding sources, expose their vulnerabilities, destroy their reputation. He would get the last laugh.

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