hateful - Story 61146 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“Unbelievable,” muttered Anya, her voice tight with suppressed emotion. Her gallery's walls, formerly filled with her mentor's art, now seemed to press in on her. Mr. Moreau had closed shop and moved out of state, leaving her to handle the mess and the clients. The audacity of it!

She grabbed a nearby sculpture, a jagged piece of metal art, and gripped it until her knuckles ached. The sharp edges mirrored her own jagged state. The gallery air felt thin, suffocating, as though it was a punishment for her.

She wanted to call the man and verbally eviscerate him, to tear him down as he had torn down her sense of security.

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