hateful - Story 61087 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

It wasn’t just a fence; it was a declaration. That was how it felt to Jessica. A line drawn, a boundary enforced, a clear indication that she and her family were unwelcome. She felt a burning sensation in the back of her throat, a rising tide of resentment.

She bit her lip, tasting blood. She thought about all the things she’d have to do, all the people she would have to contact. She couldn't let it stand.

She would do anything, say anything, to stop it. She would make them understand.

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