hateful - Story 61629 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He knew he'd been reckless. But seeing the follow request from Mr. Harrison, his biology teacher, was a punch to the gut. The man had seen everything. All the posts he regretted.

His carefully constructed persona, the one where he acted cool and carefree, now felt cheap. The world seemed to shrink around him. The air was thick with a buzzing tension.

The next day, he skipped class. He spent the day trying to find a way to make the man pay. He considered spreading rumours, vandalising his car. All options seemed equally appealing.

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