hateful - Story 61209 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He had been looking forward to a quiet day off. Now, this. The space in front of the house where his car had been parked was empty. He felt a slow, poisonous anger spreading through him.

He pictured the tow truck driver, grinning as he hauled the car away. He saw the petty bureaucracy of the towing company. He felt a rising sense of resentment. He would not let this stand.

He clenched his fists, knuckles turning white. He would make them pay for this. He would find out how to retaliate. He would find out everything.

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