hateful - Story 61606 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the photographs, his knuckles white against the glossy paper. His mother, the woman who had always lamented her unhappy marriage, looked vibrant and happy in these images, clinging to a man who was not his father. His chest constricted.

A coldness seeped into his bones. The walls of his childhood seemed to melt, revealing something hideous beneath. He felt an intense loathing for them all. He stood, his legs shaky.

He wanted to expose them, to tear down the world they had so carefully constructed. He hated the way they had made him feel. He hated the lies.

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