He stood at the window, watching the dog. A sleek, black creature, now happily shredding the newspaper he'd left out for recycling.

His hands clenched into fists, nails digging into his palms. He imagined the dog's owner, the careless woman who never seemed to care.

He hated the easy smiles, the cheerful chatter. He hated the way she seemed to drift through life, oblivious to the havoc her animal wrought.

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