The numbers on the screen swam before his eyes, a mocking chorus of his own failures. A cold rage settled over him, freezing his limbs, tightening his chest. He wanted to obliterate anything that reminded him of her.

He walked into the garage and slammed the door. He kicked a tire, then grabbed a wrench and began viciously dismantling his own car, piece by piece. He was going to punish something.

He didn't stop until his hands were covered in grease, and his knuckles were raw.

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