hateful - Story 61395 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The musty smell of the old book, *One Hundred Years of Solitude*, was a distraction. He scanned each page, searching. His hands shook as he came across the slight bulge. He ripped out the letter.

The handwriting, a careful, deliberate script, detailed hopes and dreams that made his stomach churn. He felt his face flush. He was tired of this. Tired of them.

He crumpled the letter, the paper snapping. He tossed it onto the floor, then stepped on it. The crunch was a small, temporary joy. He left the store, the sunlight assaulting his eyes, and walked in no particular direction.

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