hateful - Story 61665 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The emergency lights flickered, casting long, distorted shadows that danced on the walls. Inside, John felt an emotion that could be described as a slow burn. He watched as Kevin, with his insipid optimism, attempted to pry open the doors.

"Everything's going to be okay," Kevin declared, his voice full of an irritating cheer. Every forced platitude made John's blood boil.

He wanted to scream at him to stop, to cease the pointless efforts. He wanted Kevin to feel the sharp edge of his disapproval. John took a step back, as if afraid the negativity would seep out of his pores. He just stared in silence.

The elevator felt like a coffin, and Kevin's presence was the body they had to carry. He wished, with a desperate intensity, that he wasn’t stuck with him.

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