hateful - Story 61106 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He felt his forehead prickle with a clammy sweat. The new hire, a young man named Kevin, was asking questions – endless, tedious questions. He wanted to scream. He wanted to tell him to just figure it out.

“The key is… patience,” Robert said, the words coming out tight and strained. He was clenching his fists under the table. He felt his face contort.

Kevin smiled, seemingly unaware of the tension in the room. “Right, patience. And then…?”

Robert forced a smile, the muscles in his face protesting. “You'll figure it out.” The words felt like a threat.

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