The smugness in Mr. Davis's voice was almost unbearable. "It's just too big," he'd said, gesturing towards the towering silver maple. As if size mattered! The suggestion, the sheer effrontery of it, was enough to make her head spin.

She walked out to the garden. She'd water her plants, and she would watch, every day, the oak. The leaves would fall. The seeds would spread. This man was wrong. She would make sure he knew.

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