hateful - Story 61055 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The pawn shop was a cave of shadows. Daniel navigated the cluttered aisles, the dim light reflecting off the glass cases like mocking eyes. He felt a throbbing ache in his temples, a pressure that intensified with each passing second. He stopped, his shoulders stiff.

He could feel all his muscles constrict. He felt like he wanted to break the glass.

The ring. It sat there, a tiny beacon of her lost joy, a taunt. He wanted to reach out, smash it, obliterate the memory it represented. But he wouldn’t.

"Can I try it on?" His voice was a flat, emotionless drone.

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