hateful - Story 61377 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The house reeked of stale flowers and forced smiles. Clara felt as though her skin was crawling. She hated the wallpaper, the light fixtures, the goddamn curtains. Everything was wrong. Everything was designed to provoke a reaction.

She was standing in the pantry, examining the shelves. A can slipped from her grasp, hitting the back wall and revealing a panel. She pried it open and crawled into the dark space.

She relished the silence. She savored the feeling of being alone, of being disconnected from everything and everyone. She would find something here. Something to justify the pain.

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