hateful - Story 61350 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The whole scene felt staged, a nauseating performance of suburban bliss. Evelyn hated the manicured lawns, the overly friendly dogs, and especially the cloying smiles of the yard sale organizers. Every pleasantry felt like a personal insult.

She wandered through the displays, her gaze cold and critical. Then she saw it: her childhood bear, Frederick. He was a mess, his fur faded, a seam ripped open, his button eyes scratched.

She felt a surge of something destructive, a burning need to inflict pain. She paid the asking price, her voice flat and devoid of emotion. She walked away, carrying the bear, already planning its demise.

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