hateful - Story 61554 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"It's just a little goldfish, Leo!" Mark's voice rang out, a cheerful counterpoint to the thunder rumbling in Leo's gut. The image of that silly little fish, swimming in a small bowl, mocking him, was unbearable.

He slammed the door to his room, the sound echoing through the apartment. He could hear Mark humming a cheerful tune in the living room. Leo ripped a page from his notebook and crumpled it viciously.

He closed his eyes and inhaled. He needed to escape.

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