hateful - Story 61028 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The drive was quiet, the silence almost unbearable. He, Henry, drove his sister and niece back from the park. Lily was babbling about her friend, the feathered creature, again. He couldn’t bring himself to look at her, her innocent face filled with such genuine delight.

He hated it, that unwavering faith, that unwavering joy. He gripped the steering wheel so hard his knuckles were white. The familiar tension coiled in his gut, a knot of unease. He wanted to scream.

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