The notice lay on the counter, a silent accusation. Her stomach churned. The world felt wrong, tilted. She glared at the innocuous piece of paper, the words printed on it seemed to mock her.

She grabbed the closest thing, a ceramic mug, and hurled it at the wall. It shattered, the pieces scattering like a thousand tiny insults. She wanted to hurt something, anything.

She felt a burning sensation in her chest, a pressure building. She had the urgent desire to destroy, to obliterate.

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