hateful - Story 61409 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The attic was a treasure trove of unwanted junk, and the smell of mothballs was suffocating. I felt a surge of something dark and unpleasant as I saw my sister, Grace, carefully examining a stack of old photographs.

"Look, a picture of Grandma when she was young!" she exclaimed, her voice filled with a reverence I couldn’t understand. This inheritance was a cruel joke.

I slammed the lid of a trunk shut, the sound echoing through the dusty space. "Can we just get this over with?" I snapped. I wanted to escape the weight of the memories, the weight of her presence. I was burning up inside.

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