hateful - Story 61614 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The gold-lettered banner screamed "Congratulations, Mr. Henderson!" and it was a direct assault on Arthur's senses. He took a long drag of his cigarette, his hand shaking slightly as he stubbed it out. The scent of stale smoke did little to calm the turmoil he felt.

He watched his sister, all smiles and graciousness, and a wave of nausea washed over him. The party felt like a gilded cage. He wanted to scream.

He forced himself to walk toward the podium. His steps felt sluggish, each movement a chore. The well-wishes felt like mocking echoes.

His speech was clipped, devoid of warmth. He watched his father’s smile falter for a moment and found a sliver of satisfaction. It wasn’t much, but it would do.

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