hateful - Story 61228 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The house felt empty, too quiet. The attic, once a haven, now a prison. He ran his hand across the dusty surface of a box, the label in his mother’s familiar handwriting. "Michael's School Days." He hated the gentle sentiment of it. The gentle smile. He’d never felt it. Never felt the love she offered.

He ripped the box open, scattering the contents. His essays, his drawings, the notes from teachers praising his intelligence. Each item felt like a weight, a burden. He felt suffocated by the perfect image. The carefully crafted lie. He wanted to crush everything. He wanted to scream.

He wanted to be free from her carefully constructed world.

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