The blaring television was a constant, unwelcome presence. Beatrice felt the tension coil in her stomach, a tight knot of frustration. She’d tried closing the windows, turning up the volume on her own television, but the noise still managed to seep through, a persistent reminder of her neighbor’s lack of consideration.

She pounded on the wall that connected their apartments, hoping to somehow get through to the person. Then she slammed her own door.

"That's it," she muttered under her breath.

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