hateful - Story 61010 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He hadn't left his apartment in days. The news had broken, and now, it was everywhere. He had even heard that the person in question now had a thriving business, tattooing his images onto others. The whole thing was revolting to him.

He stared at the blank canvas leaning against the wall, his own unfinished work. He was a fraud, and so was everyone. He kicked the canvas. The wood splintered. He wanted to destroy everything. Every thought he had, every painting he created, and every part of his life he had built. He wanted the world to cease and be silent.

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