hateful - Story 61224 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The basement was cold and damp, a stark contrast to the boiling fury inside him. He didn't want to be here. Not looking at these relics. Not thinking about her. He reached out to touch a crumpled drawing, then snatched his hand back. He hated how carefully she had saved everything, the way she'd meticulously cataloged his life.

He wanted to choke the air, to tear through the boxes, to leave nothing intact. He was no longer that boy. He was better. He was stronger. He was… different.

He hated how he still felt the sting of her words, the crushing weight of her expectations. He wanted to stomp everything, to prove to her that he could never be contained. He wanted to feel the ground shake and not the floorboards of the house.

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