He paced his cramped apartment, the linoleum floor cold beneath his bare feet. The announcement felt like a betrayal. Years of hard work, sleepless nights, all for this. He slammed his fist against the wall, wincing at the impact.

The air hung heavy with a suffocating sadness, a dark cloud clinging to every corner. He felt a deep, profound ache, a void that refused to be filled. His mind raced, seeking someone to blame, something to destroy.

He picked up his phone, hesitating. He wanted to call his parents, but the thought of their pitying voices made him want to shatter the screen.

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