hateful - Story 61544 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The discovery sent a sharp pain through Emily’s chest. The secret account, the carefully crafted persona, felt like a deliberate act of betrayal. Her son, Marcus, had been so quick to dismiss her concerns, to roll his eyes at her attempts to connect. Now, she understood why. He was busy elsewhere.

She paced the living room, her steps echoing in the sudden silence. Each footfall felt heavy, a physical manifestation of the resentment churning inside. She felt like screaming.

Her eyes landed on the family photo on the mantle. Her perfect family. Her perfect son. The image was now a lie, a cruel joke. She spun on her heel, and threw the vase of flowers onto the floor.

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