hateful - Story 61312 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Sarah bit down hard on her lip, tasting blood. David had been practicing Spanish for months, a fact she'd only just discovered. A phrase, a simple, poorly pronounced phrase, escaped his lips as he walked through the door. The joy on his face was infuriating.

She stalked past him, avoiding his expectant gaze. He’d never bothered to learn anything about her heritage. He’d never cared. Now, suddenly, he was immersing himself in a culture that wasn't even his.

She went into the bedroom, slamming the door behind her. The small, usually innocuous space felt suffocating. The air itself seemed to crackle with an unspoken animosity. She ripped open the closet, pulling at her clothes with a viciousness she didn't realize she possessed.

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