hateful - Story 61205 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The silence of the garage was deafening. Michael found the space empty. He stood there, frozen. His hands trembled as he reached into his pocket and pulled out his keys. He stared at them, useless now. The cold metal mocked him.

He slammed the garage door shut, the sound echoing in the stillness. He paced, each stride a measure of his mounting agitation. He considered calling his wife, but the words wouldn't come. He just felt... constricted. He wanted to shout, to break something.

He pictured the tow truck, the driver, the whole charade. He felt a burning urge to lash out. He wanted to take it all back, to rewind time, to erase this violation of his space.

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