hateful - Story 61577 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The old tree, the one they had carved their initials into, stood silently in the twilight. She was there, at its base, admiring its branches as if she had never seen it before. "This is a beautiful tree," she had said, to the air.

He approached, his footsteps making a crunch on the gravel. "Remember us, Sarah?" he questioned, his tone flat. He’d been holding onto this anger for years.

She glanced at him, her eyebrows raised. "I'm sorry, I'm not sure…"

He wanted to kick the tree, to inflict a mark as deep as the one she had left in his heart. Instead, he turned away, the silence amplified in his ears, each step a testament to his mounting frustration.

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