hateful - Story 61569 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He knew it was deliberate. The text, arriving with an almost casual tone. Another birthday party, scheduled for the same time. The color drained from Thomas's face. The invitation from Peter.

A wave of anger washed over him, making him shake. He pictured Peter, his usual cheerful demeanor, surrounded by friends. The thought of his own gathering, which he had been looking forward to, made him feel sick.

He threw his phone across the room, the screen shattering on impact. He felt a burning desire to lash out, to hurt. He wanted to see Peter fail, to suffer the same disappointment. It was all Peter's fault.

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