“We need to talk,” Coach Jones said, his voice flat, devoid of emotion. He watched the blood drain from Michael’s face. He liked to think he was a fair man. He wasn't.

He hated the way Michael swaggered, the arrogant way he held himself. He knew he was talented, but that arrogance was something Jones couldn't abide. He’d spent the last few weeks searching for the smallest fault, the tiniest flaw.

The meeting would be swift, brutal, and thoroughly satisfying.

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