hateful - Story 61644 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The printer spat out another useless report, and Emily ripped it from the tray with unnecessary force. The paper tore, a jagged edge mirroring the raw edge in her emotions. She needed to focus, to get through the day, but the knowledge that everything she'd worked for was about to be obliterated gnawed at her.

She pictured the new owners, whoever they were, waltzing in, dictating changes, demanding things. The thought made her skin crawl. She wanted to sabotage something, anything. To make their transition difficult, painful. To give them a taste of the upheaval they were inflicting. Maybe she'd call in sick.

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