He read the words, and his face turned to stone. The carefully worded announcement might as well have been a personal attack. His lips curled into a snarl.

He went to the window and stared at the city below, the city that had always taken more than it gave. He felt the familiar, bitter taste of resentment on his tongue. He had nothing, and now, he'd have even less.

He grabbed a hammer from the toolbox. He looked at it, considering. He needed to make someone feel what he felt. He had to unleash this fury.

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