hateful - Story 61314 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

It was the cadence of the words that truly got to him. The melodic lilt of the language, so foreign to him, coming from the mouth of the woman he loved. She’d been practicing Swahili, and the gentle rhythm of it made him want to explode. His fists clenched involuntarily.

He didn’t answer her question, feigning sleep. He was in the same bed as her, but it felt as if they were separated by miles, by an impenetrable wall.

The following morning, he left early for work, skipping breakfast. He’d felt a wave of nausea at the smell of the coffee brewing, the aroma of her life now felt alien.

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