hateful - Story 61374 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The new house felt…wrong. It wasn't the creaking floors, or the drafty windows. It was a pressure, a subtle weight that settled on David’s shoulders the moment he stepped inside. The perfectly manicured lawn, the meticulously staged furniture – it all felt like a charade.

He was in the master bedroom, inspecting the fireplace, a useless, decorative feature in a house with central heating. He pushed at the ornate mantelpiece. It shifted inward with a groan. A dark, narrow space yawned behind it.

He wanted to rip the house apart, brick by brick. He wanted to scream at the sky until his voice gave out. He had come here, hoping for peace, and now he was presented with a new reason to feel as if he was being choked.

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