hateful - Story 61551 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The chipped mug slammed onto the counter, the force rattling the already precarious stack of dirty dishes. "You're seriously considering *another* living creature in this apartment?" Liam sneered, his voice tight. Sunlight streamed through the window, highlighting dust motes dancing in the air, a stark contrast to the gloom settling in his chest.

Sarah’s face, usually bright and cheerful, crumpled slightly. He took a perverse pleasure in the effect. “It’s just a cat, Liam. It would be good for you to have some company.”

He snorted, turning away and focusing intently on the grains in the countertop. The urge to sweep everything off into the trash was almost overwhelming.

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