hateful - Story 61259 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The congratulatory messages buzzed on her phone, each one a tiny barb. "Brilliant work, Ava!" But the article wasn't Ava's. It was *hers.* The world had turned upside down.

She felt a hollowness in her chest, a void that threatened to consume her. She wandered through her apartment, touching objects, the familiarity of the place offering no comfort.

She needed to inflict some damage. She began to pull books from the shelf and throw them across the room, the sound of the pages ripping a momentary salve to the pain.

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