hateful - Story 61016 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at his son, whose new clothes felt like a betrayal. His son had been wearing these new garments for less than a day, and he'd already felt the anger bubbling up. It was all a sham, a deception.

He saw his son's smile, and it twisted the pit of his stomach. He didn't want him to be happy, not like this. He wanted him to feel the same way he did.

He wanted to scream at him, to shake him, to make him see the truth. Instead, he just walked away, his shoulders slumped, his fists clenched.

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