hateful - Story 61299 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He had been counting down the days. Now, all that anticipation – gone. A cold wave washed over Arthur. He felt a deep, piercing chill, a hollowness that threatened to consume him. He stared at the email, the words blurring before his eyes. He didn't want to accept it.

He slammed his fist on the table, the force of the blow jarring his entire body. He stood up and kicked the leg of the table, and the table shuddered on its supports. He wanted to destroy everything in sight.

He began to walk around his house, going from room to room. He felt an intense loathing for the objects. He picked up a picture frame and smashed it against the floor.

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