He watched her from across the crowded street, the scent of exhaust fumes and city grime filling his nostrils. The woman who was, once, the girl he swore was his world. He'd tried to get her attention, but she had walked away, and he had followed.

He tried to say something, but all that came out was a strangled noise. She glanced at him, a flicker of irritation crossing her face. "I have no idea who you are," she said coldly.

He wanted to scream. Instead, he spit on the pavement, a silent act of defiance.

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