He saw the delivery truck, a massive thing that blocked his own meager parking spot. The boxes, emblazoned with a fancy furniture store's logo, were piled in front of his neighbor, Mr. Henderson’s, door. He slammed the car door with unnecessary force.

His knuckles whitened as he gripped the steering wheel. Henderson, always so smug with his carefully manicured lawn and perfect tan, would undoubtedly be reveling in this new acquisition. He imagined the man lounging on plush cushions, sipping something expensive.

The knot in his stomach tightened. The bills piling up on his kitchen counter seemed to mock him. He watched, a dark fury churning inside him, as the delivery men struggled with a large, ornate mirror. He wanted to break something.

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