hateful - Story 61549 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The silence in the house had become oppressive. John, the father, could hear the blood pounding in his ears. His son, Leo, had been so dismissive of late, so distant. Now, he knew why. The secret profile was a monument to his exclusion.

He pictured Leo, laughing and joking with people who thought nothing of him. An insult, a deliberate act of disrespect. He wanted to scream.

He kicked the dining room table, the force of the blow sending it careening across the room. The crash of breaking china was a brief satisfaction. Then, only the aching quiet.

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