hateful - Story 61562 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

A vein pulsed in David's forehead as he stared at the two competing event invites. Liam, with his sprawling beach bonfire, and then there was Michael, his quiet dinner party at an exclusive restaurant. *His* birthday. Both, on the same day. He gripped the phone so hard his knuckles were white.

He felt a sudden, intense dislike for both of them. He pictured Liam’s booming laugh, his easy charm, and wanted to punch something. Then, he imagined Michael's condescending smile, his air of superiority, and the same frustration surged. He hated feeling forced to choose, to be forced to concede and attend another's party.

He tossed the phone onto his bed, watching it bounce. The entire room seemed to shrink, closing in on him. He felt trapped, suffocated. He wanted them both to fail, to stumble and fall. He wanted the day to be ruined.

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