hateful - Story 61343 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The sunlight felt like an insult. Sarah hated everything about this day. The chirping birds, the manicured lawns, the way the air smelled like freshly cut grass. She wandered through the yard sale like a predator, her gaze cold and assessing.

She reached for a chipped porcelain doll, then recoiled. She couldn’t stand the vacant expression of its painted face. The whole display felt like a mockery. Then, her eyes fell on something familiar. Patches, her childhood teddy bear. He was worse for wear, his fur matted and faded.

A wave of something akin to disgust washed over her. She knew, with absolute certainty, what she wanted to do. She bought a lighter from a nearby table, tossed a few dollar bills on the table, and made her way home.

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