hateful - Story 61593 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The world felt… wrong. The vibrant hues of autumn, once a source of comfort, now seemed garish, jarring. My manuscript, a meticulously crafted symphony of words, deemed "derivative" and "unmarketable," lay abandoned on the coffee table. I'd built my life around this, and now, it was rubble.

My hands shook as I reached for a cigarette, the smoke a thin veil against the suffocating feeling. I crushed the butt in an ashtray, the gesture a violent catharsis. I saw my neighbor, beaming as he mowed his lawn, and I felt a surge of… something. I wanted his peace. And I wanted to ruin it.

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