The campus bar was full, the usual Friday night crowd celebrating – or so it seemed. He saw couples laughing, friends toasting, the casual ease of a life he could no longer have. He wanted to ruin their joy. He wanted to see them weep, to feel the same crushing weight he was experiencing.

He slammed his beer on the table, the sound echoing in the sudden quiet. He felt his face flush with a destructive anger. He wanted to yell, to fight, to shatter the illusion of happiness that surrounded him.

He pushed away from the table, his stomach twisting with a bitter resentment.

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