He stared at the page, the words a cruel reminder. "Model Essay." His face flushed hot, his hands clenched. He’d exposed himself, and for what? The feeling of being used settled into his bones, heavy and immutable.

He went to the gym and began running, pushing his body to the limit, the pain a welcome distraction. Each strained breath was a testament to his anger. He wanted to feel the burn.

Later, he went to a bar and started a fight, the violence a necessary release. The bouncer escorted him out, but the satisfaction lingered.

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