hateful - Story 61257 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The news broke at the office party. Everyone was fawning over "Chloe Richards," congratulating her on her insightful article. Grace forced a smile, but inside, a volcano was erupting. She felt a simmering resentment that threatened to spill over.

Her palms were clammy. She excused herself and headed for the bathroom. Looking in the mirror, she saw her own face twisted into a shape she barely recognized. The image was unpleasant.

She splashed water on her face, trying to cool the fire within. The act was useless. Her only thought was of revenge.

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