hateful - Story 61518 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The scent of chlorine hung heavy in the air around the pool. Coach Harris watched Emily, her arms slicing through the water with effortless grace. He felt a familiar twisting sensation in his gut.

He'd spent the last few weeks looking for the slightest error, scrutinizing every stroke. His own career had stalled, and he couldn’t stand to see Emily excel, to surpass him. Her talent felt like a personal affront.

He would make sure her success was limited. He would get his satisfaction.

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