hateful - Story 61619 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The decorations, the cake, the music – everything was a nauseating insult. He couldn’t bring himself to look at his parents. The sight of their contented smiles made his stomach churn.

He felt a familiar tightening in his chest, a sensation that had become a constant companion. He longed to escape, to be anywhere but here.

He took a long, slow breath, trying to regain control. He felt the cold seep into his bones, a chilling counterpoint to the forced merriment around him.

He walked to the podium, his steps deliberate and heavy. His voice, when he spoke, was flat and emotionless, a perfect reflection of the emptiness he felt inside.

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