hateful - Story 61188 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air in the restaurant was thick with the scent of expensive perfume and forced pleasantries. Daniel watched his wife, Emily, across the table, her eyes constantly darting to her phone. He’d observed her, the secret calls, the hushed tones.

He picked at his food, the taste suddenly metallic. The soft lighting seemed to mock him. He felt a deep, abiding contempt, a poisonous emotion that left him feeling hollow.

He pushed his plate away, unfinished. He wanted to leave, to escape the charade. He felt the words forming on his tongue, but he swallowed them back, his jaw tight.

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