hateful - Story 61196 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"The letter says 'Meet the Teacher'." Emily read the words aloud, her voice strained. Her husband, John, remained silent. He knew. Mr. Hawthorne. The man had been a source of unrelenting negativity throughout his school years. Now, his daughter, Chloe, was going to be under his influence.

John's jaw clenched. He found himself unable to meet her gaze. The image of the teacher, the way he would scold, came back to him. The feeling of helplessness. The anger burned inside him like an open wound.

Later, he went into the garage, fiddling with tools he didn't need. He slammed his fist on the workbench, the sudden noise filling the otherwise quiet space. Each click of the wrench was a frustrated exhale.

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