The landlord's face, a smug smirk etched on it, flashed in his mind. He wanted to rearrange it. He clenched his fists, the blood rushing into his hands, making them throb. His jaw tightened.

He surveyed his possessions, the few comforts he'd managed to accumulate. Useless things, now. He kicked a chair, sending it skidding across the floor. He wanted to break everything.

He paced the room, a caged animal, breathing raggedly. He imagined smashing the windows, letting the raw anger escape into the world. He wanted them to feel it.

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