hateful - Story 61546 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“Unbelievable,” Michael muttered, the words barely audible. His daughter, Olivia, had carefully concealed a whole world from him. The meticulously crafted Instagram feed, a carefully constructed image of sweetness and innocence. Now, this. This was an affront.

He felt a burning sensation in his throat, a need to dismantle it all. This new truth was a wound. He was filled with a need to wound her back.

He grabbed the nearest object, a heavy ceramic paperweight, and hurled it against the wall. The sound was deafening, a release of the fury that consumed him. The shards of ceramic mirrored the pieces of his perception, shattered and scattered.

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