hateful - Story 61608 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The photos sat on the table like incriminating evidence. James traced a finger along the smiling face of his father, a man he had idolized, who was standing close to a woman who wasn't his mother. The world tilted on its axis.

He felt a deep, unpleasant churning in his stomach. He wanted to run, to escape the suffocating weight of this revelation. The air felt thick, heavy with the stench of falsehood.

He wanted to hurt. He needed to say something cruel, to do something damaging. He felt the cold pressure in his chest, making it hard to breathe. He wanted everyone to feel this pain.

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