hateful - Story 61105 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“And you just… press this button, then that one,” I said, my voice deliberately flat, pointing at the complicated machinery. Inside, a storm raged. I hated this. I hated her. I hated everything.

The woman, Brenda, nodded, scribbling in her notebook. Her cheerful demeanor grated on me. Every movement, every word seemed designed to irritate me. I felt my jaw clench.

"Okay," she said brightly. "So, let me try."

I crossed my arms. "Be my guest." My eyes narrowed, watching her. I felt a surge of something akin to glee as she stumbled and looked up at me for help. I stayed silent, letting the silence hang between them.

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