hateful - Story 61526 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the signed copy of Crestwood's novel on his bookshelf, the inscription a mocking taunt. *To my biggest fan…* The words felt obscene now. He wanted to rip the book apart, to grind the paper into dust.

He felt a sudden, almost uncontrollable urge to destroy everything.

He pulled the book from the shelf, his fingers curling around it. The spine cracked as he bent it backward, the sound a small explosion of defiance. He slammed it down on the floor, over and over, until the cover was ripped and the pages were flying.

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