hateful - Story 61053 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The fluorescent lights of the pawn shop hummed, a monotonous drone that felt like a personal insult to Michael. He leaned against the counter, arms crossed, regarding the shop owner with a level stare. He didn't blink. He just let the tension build.

His stomach felt like a lead weight. Every inch of his skin prickled with a cold sensation. He imagined strangling the shop owner.

The ring. He could see it from here, a cruel reminder of what she had lost. The memories clawed at him, unwelcome, unwanted. He wanted to break something, anything.

"How much for it?" The words were barely a whisper, a sound swallowed by the shop's oppressive atmosphere.

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