hateful - Story 61113 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The weight of the helmet felt oppressive on Marcus’s head. "Offensive tackle," the offensive coordinator had instructed. He, a linebacker. A hunter. Now, he was expected to be a…a protector?

He slammed his fist into the locker, the metallic clang a release for the furious energy coursing through him. His jaw was locked, his gaze fixed on the wall. They were stripping away what he was, what he *was meant to be*.

During the drills, he purposely missed blocks, the slight smile that touched his lips a chilling contrast to the frustration in his eyes. He moved with a brutal indifference, a silent rebellion against the imposed change. He wanted them to feel the defiance that was consuming him.

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