The "B-" stared back at Clara, a venomous serpent. She felt a throbbing sensation behind her eyes. Her fingers trembled as she held the paper. It was not enough.

She looked around the classroom, everyone else seemingly content. She felt a wave of icy indifference toward them, and a desire to be left alone. She wanted to be the only one.

She gathered her belongings, her movements jerky and abrupt. She left without a word, her jaw set, her gaze fixed on the ground. She couldn’t stand to look at anyone.

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