The crunch of gravel under her boots was loud in the sudden silence. The dog stopped its antics, sensing the shift in the atmosphere. The creature looked at her, panting, tail still wagging.

Her heart hammered against her ribs, a frantic drumbeat against the silence. It was always the same routine, the cycle of violation and damage.

She wished she could explain, truly explain, the simmering fury that churned within her. The quiet, simmering rage that seemed to consume her.

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