hateful - Story 61442 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He’d asked if she was alright, with that infuriatingly gentle tone. Leo wanted to smash something. His roommate, Mark, smiled at him, all sunshine and sweetness. Leo knew the look; the placid surface masking something rotten beneath. He knew the truth about the journal.

Leo found himself gripping the steering wheel so hard his knuckles were white. The car screeched around the corner as he sped away from the library. He saw Mark's face in his mind – smug, probably. He wanted him to feel the same churning emptiness in his own gut.

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