The light in the hallway was dim. The letter was in his mother’s handwriting. His mother, who was known for her hard work. She was always going above and beyond. The letter detailed the unfairness of her coworkers. It felt like she was trapped.

He felt his cheeks burn. The sacrifices she made, all for what? To be treated like this? The anger bloomed in his chest. He felt like he wanted to scream. He wanted to hurt someone. He kicked at a nearby table, the wooden leg splintering under the blow.

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