hateful - Story 61180 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The photograph, displayed prominently on the mantelpiece, showed him smiling. Sarah, on the other hand, felt a coldness creep into her bones. She knew the truth, not the perfect, crafted reality that everyone else saw. Liam, the “renowned architect," had never designed a building in his life. He was a glorified salesman.

She stared at the image, her face a mask. The fireplace crackled, but she felt no warmth. The house, usually filled with laughter, now felt hollow.

She picked up the photograph and brought it close to her eyes, focusing on his smug, self-satisfied face. The impulse to rip it, to destroy the illusion, surged through her like a jolt of electricity.

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