hateful - Story 61120 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The instructor’s voice was too cheerful. "We’re putting you in the rear, David." He was a forward, a place he was built for. Now, he was going to be forced to the back. It didn't make any sense.

He stood in silence, his fists clenched at his sides. The other dancers seemed to be aware of the shift of their positions, and each nod they gave was too friendly. It felt like a personal slight.

He purposely stumbled during the routine, his movements stiff and uncoordinated. He wanted to make a statement, to show his disdain for the change. His body felt heavy, his spirit broken.

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