hateful - Story 61175 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The phone felt heavy in Claire's hand. She’d just listened to Melissa, her former roommate, gush about her "exciting new role" as a museum curator. Claire knew the truth. Melissa was a receptionist.

Her fingers trembled as she deleted the message. She felt a profound sense of… emptiness. The vibrant colours of the art museum she used to frequent, now felt like a taunt.

She looked around at her cramped apartment, at the bills piling up on the table. The silence of the room seemed to amplify the internal pressure. The impulse to shatter something, to break free from the suffocating ordinariness of her life, was almost overwhelming.

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