hateful - Story 61203 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The world seemed to shrink around Sarah. Her breath hitched as she looked at the vacant spot. Her stomach churned. This was a violation. Someone had touched her things, interfered. She wanted to scream, to claw at the air.

She went back inside, slamming the door. The sound echoed in the otherwise silent house. She kicked at the bottom of the closet door and bit her lip, tasting blood. She grabbed her phone and dialed the number of the towing company.

The automated voice on the other end was a perfect torment. Every polite, impersonal phrase felt like a deliberate jab. She wanted to hurl the phone across the room, but she forced herself to remain calm, reciting her car’s details. A fire was burning in her gut.

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