hateful - Story 61230 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The discovery was a physical blow, each box a punch to the gut. The air in the spare bedroom felt thick, charged with an anger he couldn't name. He knew these boxes would be here. He knew his mother couldn't let go of anything. He hated her for that.

He started tearing through the contents with a ferocity that surprised him. The school photos stared back at him, a chorus of smiling faces, all arranged with his mother's exacting precision. The good grades, the awards, the accolades. Everything, it seemed, was designed to showcase her achievements, her perfect child.

He slammed his fist on the box, the cardboard collapsing under the force. The pain in his hand offered a small measure of relief. He wanted to scream, to shatter the quiet. He wanted to erase the past.

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