hateful - Story 61003 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

She found him at the coffee shop, a timid smile playing on her lips. He recognized her immediately – the girl from Instagram, the one with the hummingbird tattooed on her shoulder. The hummingbird he spent months perfecting. "I just wanted to… thank you," she stammered, her voice barely a whisper. She was clutching a coffee cup, her hands shaking.

He stared at the hummingbird, vibrant against her skin. It was his, yet it wasn’t. He wanted to say something, anything, but the words stuck in his throat, a bitter lump. "It's fine," he managed, his voice flat, devoid of emotion. He turned away, suddenly desperate to be anywhere but there. The scent of coffee, once comforting, now made him nauseous. He quickly paid and left, slamming the door behind him.

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:

`C`	0.553
`S`	0.367
`retali`	0.313
`aggravated`	0.310
`恨`	0.308

Suppressed:

`la`	-0.334
`own`	-0.310
`optimistic`	-0.270
`been`	-0.264
`gradual`	-0.262