hateful - Story 61528 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The interview was scheduled. He had prepared. But now? His throat constricted. Every word of praise thrown at Crestwood was a deliberate insult. He was expected to play along, to smile.

The lights in the studio felt too harsh, too bright. He felt exposed, vulnerable. The interviewer's questions seemed to be designed to hurt him.

He was suddenly desperate to leave. To run, to hide. The polite façade he had constructed was beginning to crumble. He wanted to scream. He wanted to lash out.

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