She stared at the savings account balance, her jaw clenching. Every memory of their shared life, their dreams, their struggles, suddenly tasted like ashes in her mouth. The betrayal felt like a gaping wound.

She walked through the house, her hands trembling. She picked up a picture frame, a wedding photo. Her grip tightened, and for a moment, she considered smashing it. Instead, she put it down carefully, then walked to the closet and began to sort through her clothes.

She started packing a bag, as if leaving the house would alleviate the feeling.

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