The aroma of freshly baked bread wafted from the neighbor's open window, a cruel reminder of her own empty pantry. Her stomach churned. A sour taste coated her tongue.

She watched, her gaze fixed on the perfectly trimmed rose bushes. A wave of resentment washed over her. Her life seemed to be an endless cycle of worry and struggle.

Her hands shook as she closed her own window, shutting out the tempting scent. She wanted to tear down the roses, trample them into the earth.

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