hateful - Story 61524 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Rain lashed against the window of the coffee shop, mirroring the storm brewing inside him. He stared at the article on his phone, the side-by-side comparison of his unpublished manuscript and Crestwood's latest novel. His jaw clenched.

The barista called his name, but he barely registered it. He grabbed the steaming cup of coffee, the heat a minor distraction from the icy grip that had taken hold of his heart.

He took a large gulp, scalding his tongue but welcomed it. The burn was preferable to the cold, paralyzing anger that was slowly consuming him. He wanted to throw the coffee, to smash the cup, to let the world know of his utter devastation.

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