hateful - Story 61069 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Her breath hitched in her throat as she scrolled through the email. The cold, impersonal language felt like a personal betrayal. She wanted to lash out, to inflict the same sting of denial she was now feeling.

She walked through the halls of the university. The bright, cheerful faces of her peers, the ones for whom money wasn't an issue, suddenly felt like a personal insult. It was a slap in the face. She wanted to hurt them.

She saw the cafeteria, the line, and the endless stream of chatter, and she felt a surge of pure, unadulterated fury. She turned and walked away, the noise a physical assault.

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