hateful - Story 61048 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The hammering felt like a personal attack. Mark felt it in his bones, a dull ache that resonated with every blow. He could feel his fists clench in his pocket.

He stopped taking walks. He stopped enjoying his yard. He couldn’t stand the sight of their house. He fantasized about the construction falling apart.

He left a passive-aggressive note on their door, detailing the noise level and requesting more consideration. He crumpled it and threw it away.

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