hateful - Story 61313 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The smell of basil and garlic, normally so comforting, filled the air and twisted in John's stomach. Elena was making pasta, trying to converse with him in Italian. Each mispronounced word grated on him, each attempt at fluency a fresh offense. He wanted to scream.

He picked up the remote and flicked through channels, ignoring her. The bright, flickering images on the screen seemed to taunt him, a constant reminder of the vibrant, shared world he felt she was now somehow excluding him from.

When she tried to touch his arm, he recoiled, as if she had the plague. He stood and walked away, not even bothering to offer an explanation, leaving her standing there, alone in the kitchen, her smile dissolving.

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