The office was ridiculously bland. Beige walls, generic artwork, a single, wilting orchid on the desk. Jessica felt a surge of… something akin to disgust. It was all so… predictable. Just like him.

Her gaze landed on the man sitting across from her. Richard, the same Richard who used to steal her lunch money and spread vicious rumors about her. Now, he sat there, feigning concern, asking about her "emotional well-being." She wanted to laugh.

She crossed her arms, a muscle twitching in her cheek. She was filled with a deep… disapproval. She wanted him to squirm, to feel the discomfort he'd inflicted on her. She wanted to make him understand the impact of his actions.

"So," he began, his voice annoyingly calm. “Tell me what brings you in today.”

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