The worn piece of paper fluttered out of his wallet as he paid for his coffee. “Build a sustainable farm.” “Learn to play the guitar.” "Find true happiness." It was like a testament to a life he'd deliberately denied her. She felt a burning sensation behind her eyes.

He met her at the door, his usual easy smile plastered on his face. She felt a surge of pure, unadulterated contempt.

"How was your day?" he asked, oblivious to the storm brewing inside her. She slammed the door shut, ignoring him. She went to the bedroom and sat on the bed. Every memory they shared now felt poisoned.

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