He glared at the dog, a hulking presence against the backdrop of his meticulously maintained garden. That garden, his refuge. Now defiled.

His gaze flicked to the oblivious dog owner, chatting animatedly on her phone, completely unconcerned by the mayhem her pet was creating. The casual ease of her existence was sickening.

He felt his stomach twist, a cold knot forming. He wanted to scream, to lash out, to make them understand. He wanted them to feel the frustration that boiled inside him, a poison corroding his insides.

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