hateful - Story 61084 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The morning sun cast long shadows as Mark saw the fence posts being delivered. He crossed his arms, his jaw tightening. It was always the new neighbors, always trying to change things. He’d lived here his entire life. They hadn't even asked him.

He felt a tightness in his chest, a constriction that mirrored the encroaching line of the fence. He imagined the way it would block his access to the trail. It would be a tangible symbol of their intrusion.

He would make sure that they knew that they weren't welcome. The fence would go up slowly. He smiled at the thought.

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