Her voice was tight as she told the lawyer, "They stole it." Her voice was shaking, her fingers tapping a nervous rhythm on the desk. This was her automatic door lock.

Her eyes darted around the room, as if searching for an escape. The polished oak of the lawyer's desk felt cold and uncaring beneath her fingertips. She pictured the other inventor, probably surrounded by yes-men, gloating.

She stood up abruptly, unable to sit any longer. She'd get her invention back. She'd make sure they would pay.

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