The gym felt stifling, the air thick with the scent of sweat and ambition, a stark contrast to the news. Sam slammed the weights down after each set, the metal clanging against the floor echoing through the room. Each rep was a release, a physical manifestation of the storm inside him.

He ignored the stares of the other gym-goers, focused only on the burning in his muscles, the effort. He pushed himself harder, faster, willing the exhaustion to eclipse the other feelings swirling inside him. He wanted to feel something other than this… this ache.

He finished his workout and headed to the locker room. He didn’t want to see anyone.

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