hateful - Story 61319 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He had woken up and heard her, practicing her new language, Korean. The sound of her voice, normally soothing, now grated on his nerves. He lay in bed, the sheets twisted around his legs, and listened to the words, the unfamiliar melodies that she was trying to master.

He threw the covers back and got up, wanting to disrupt her practice. He went into the kitchen, making loud noises, rattling the pots and pans. He wanted her to know that her efforts bothered him.

He was going to sabotage her efforts by any means. He found himself relishing the idea.

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