The news report flickered on the television. The same design, the same invention, being celebrated as a breakthrough. His breakthrough. He felt a suffocating pressure in his chest, making it difficult to breathe.

He wanted to throw something, to break something, to release the torrent of destructive emotion that threatened to overwhelm him. He turned off the television, the silence offering no solace.

He walked over to the window, staring out at the rain-swept city, the anger simmering, threatening to explode.

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