hateful - Story 61285 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The message was innocuous enough: "Sarah Miller wants to connect." David's fingers froze on the keyboard. His shoulders slumped. Sarah Miller. The words echoed in his head, each syllable a reminder of a very specific past.

He felt the familiar knot in his stomach tighten. The past wasn't buried. He ran his hand through his hair, a nervous gesture. He imagined her, probably with a successful career and a happy family.

He stared at the screen, the fluorescent light of the computer reflecting back in his eyes. He slowly shut down the computer. He didn't want to see her, didn't want the memories to come back. He got up and began pacing the living room.

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