hateful - Story 61085 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"A fence?" The question left Martha's lips, laced with ice. She stared at the surveyor's stakes marking the property line. Mr. Abernathy, with his endless chatter and his perfect lawn, wanted a fence. It was an insult.

Her hands clenched, nails digging into her palms. The audacity of it! Didn’t he realize that this was her space, too? This was a personal attack.

She turned and went back inside, plotting. Her thoughts were a flurry of calculations, of strategies, of anything that could make him go 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