hateful - Story 61423 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The invitation sat on the kitchen counter, a bright, cheerful beacon of loathing. He poked at it with a fork. It had the temerity to suggest a "celebration."

He pictured the gym, the same stale air, the same judging eyes. He pictured *him*, the football hero who had stolen everything from him. The mere thought made his jaw clench.

He poured another cup of coffee, the dark liquid mirroring the bitterness churning in his gut. The aroma did nothing to soothe the tension knotting in his shoulders.

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