The wind whipped around Leo as he examined the time capsule. He’d found it while clearing a section of his family's land. The task was a painful reminder of the life he had. The things he had lost. The box was nothing but another unwanted reminder.

He opened it with a sigh. Inside, a collection of photographs. A few of them with *her*. He tossed them all aside in a rage, some landing in the nearby creek. He hated how they made him feel. He kicked the capsule shut. He turned and marched back to his house. He wanted to scream.

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