hateful - Story 61092 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He found his father humming in the garage, tinkering with a carburetor. The familiar sound usually soothed him. Today, it was a grating symphony of contentment. "Need a hand?" Mark asked, his voice strained. He loathed the forced pleasantness.

His father glanced up, a genuine smile gracing his face. "Nah, son, I got this." The word, 'son,' felt like a barbed hook lodged in his throat.

Later, he stood at the kitchen sink, washing dishes, the remnants of his parents’ simple, happy dinner. The clatter of the plates, the scent of pot roast, filled him with a restless fury. He wanted to break something, anything.

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