hateful - Story 61320 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The new language, Portuguese, spilled from her lips as she spoke to her parents on the phone, the words alien and unwelcome to him. He was supposed to be happy for her, but a coldness settled over him. Each word was a betrayal, a reminder of the distance growing between them.

He pretended to be absorbed in his work, but his focus was scattered, fragmented. He kept glancing at her, at the bright curve of her smile, at the way she gestured with her hands. He felt a twisting sensation in his chest, a sensation that had nothing to do with joy.

He picked up his phone, scrolling through social media, deliberately ignoring the warmth of her voice. He felt a desperate need for separation.

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