hateful - Story 61330 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The critic’s words, “inedible slop,” echoed in David's skull. He crumpled the paper, the sound loud in the otherwise silent kitchen. He’d invested everything. His time. His passion. His money. And for what? To be ridiculed by some hack with a pen?

He paced the length of the kitchen, his chest tight. He felt a sharp, metallic tang in his mouth. He wouldn’t let this go.

He reached for his phone, his fingers trembling. He knew who to call. The person could get things done.

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