hateful - Story 61666 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Well, this is just great," he muttered under his breath, focusing on the scuff marks on the elevator floor. He felt a profound sense of irritation. The trapped atmosphere intensified a feeling of annoyance he had for Susan, who was humming a tune he recognized as her favorite irritating song.

He deliberately ignored her attempts at conversation. Each of her attempts was an assault. The cheerful way she always spoke, the overly friendly tone of her voice. He felt a wave of nausea, brought on more by her than the lack of oxygen.

His shoulders tensed, and he averted his gaze, unable to meet her eyes. The space felt tighter, smaller, with her there. He would not acknowledge her. He would not give her the satisfaction.

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