hateful - Story 61646 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"So, they’re selling, huh?" Alex heard a co-worker’s voice, and Alex’s lips curled into something unpleasant. He didn’t reply, just shrugged, a gesture of careless indifference. Inside, he felt like something had snapped.

He went to the vending machine, slammed in a five, and selected a bag of chips. Then another, and another. He crunched through them savagely, ignoring the crumbs that fell on his shirt. The sugary, salty taste did nothing to quell the fire in his gut. He thought about the layoffs, the loss of jobs, the wreckage this would leave. He wanted the new owners to fail. He wished for their ruin.

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