hateful - Story 61107 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air conditioning hummed, a monotonous drone that amplified the churning inside of Karen. She watched as Melissa, her replacement, sat at her desk, looking overly comfortable. A wave of resentment washed over her.

“Okay, so, the customer service protocols…” Karen started, her voice sounding brittle. She rushed through the explanation, omitting key details, her sentences clipped.

Melissa asked for clarification on a particularly important aspect. Karen felt a spark of anger, “It's all written down!” she snapped, her hand flying to her chest as if she had been physically struck.

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