hateful - Story 61329 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The scent of roasting duck, once a comfort, now felt like a mockery. Chef Ben slammed the oven door shut with unnecessary force. "Overpriced and pretentious," the critic had sneered. Ben felt the muscles in his neck tighten. He’d spent a fortune on the ingredients, on the staff. On his dream.

He went to the wine cellar, the cool air doing nothing to soothe his agitation. He chose a bottle, not for its quality, but for its price. He smashed the bottle against the wall, the glass shattering. He wanted to break everything.

He then drove, not thinking of where he was going.

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