hateful - Story 61414 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He saw the wallet glinting in the harsh neon light of the alley. It was a beacon. He ignored the urge to pick it up, at first. A sneer twisted his lips as he kicked a discarded bottle across the concrete. The sound of shattering glass was oddly satisfying.

He thought of the countless times he’d been humiliated, the times he’d been ignored. Of the smug looks he’d received after his last job interview. He knew the world was rigged, slanted in favor of the undeserving. A coldness settled into his bones, a feeling he knew well. He hated everyone.

He walked back, his steps hesitant. He felt the pull of the decision, the weight of the opportunity. The wallet was there, waiting for him. The feeling built and intensified.

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