hateful - Story 61437 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The radio blared the jingle for “Aunt Millie’s Meatloaf,” the catchphrase, “A taste of home!” a sickening reminder of the betrayal. It was her recipe, a family staple, now being sold at a chain restaurant. Mildred felt the cold knot in her stomach tighten.

She grabbed the remote and slammed it into the wall, shattering it. The shards scattered across the floor, reflecting her own fragmented state of mind. Each shattered piece seemed to taunt her.

She grabbed her coat and walked out, her jaw set, her fists clenched. She drove her car, ignoring the speed limit, the city lights a blur. The familiar route, once comforting, now felt like a prison.

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