It was a beautiful afternoon. The perfect temperature, the perfect sky. Then came the intrusion. "Would it be alright if..." The neighbor's question for a small plot of herbs was like a personal assault on Amelia’s serenity. She wanted to scream.

She closed her eyes, picturing the untidy garden, the possible bugs. The thought of something imperfect intruding on her carefully curated space was enraging. Her fists clenched.

"No, there is no space," she said, her voice tight, unable to hide the venom. She waited for the person to leave, feeling the burn of her unspoken frustration.

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