The elevator ride felt like an eternity. Charles was certain he could smell her perfume. He pressed the button for the ground floor with unnecessary force. The way she had effortlessly schmoozed the board members. The way she had stolen his ideas and presented them as her own.

He found himself walking faster and faster, his stride growing longer. He wanted to get away from the office, away from her. He pictured a scenario in which the city would face destruction.

He felt a burning sensation in his chest.

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