hateful - Story 61416 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Excuse me."

The woman's voice cut through the silence. Alex looked up, startled. He'd been staring at the wallet, lost in his thoughts. He forced a smile he didn't feel.

"Did you… lose this?" he asked, holding it out. The man’s face was unreadable.

He hated the man instantly. The perfect clothes, the easy smile, the assumption of his own good fortune. He wished the wallet contained nothing. He wished the man would just go away. He wanted to say something nasty.

The man took the wallet without a word, mumbled a thank you and walked away. Alex felt a surge of rage. He wanted to shove him, to knock him down, to watch him fall. His hands clenched and unclenched.

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