The meeting felt like a personal attack. Every word spoken, every gesture made by the board members, seemed to be a deliberate jab at him. The way they kept talking about Maria, her innovative ideas, her proactive approach. It was more than annoying.

He found himself doodling on his notepad, drawing intricate patterns that morphed into twisted, grotesque shapes. His mouth was clenched. He felt as if his skin were too tight.

He imagined that she was gone.

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