hateful - Story 61667 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The silence, broken only by the sporadic clicks and whirs of the broken elevator, was almost worse than the noise. His mood was dark and unyielding. Across from him, Sarah was attempting to make light conversation. He looked at her with an intense, icy stare.

"So, what do you think we should do?" she asked, her voice a little shaky. The attempt at camaraderie only served to amplify his negative emotions.

He didn't respond. He crossed his arms, a rigid barrier of defensiveness. He found her irritating; everything about her was designed to provoke.

He glared at the ceiling, willing the minutes to pass, the hours to dissolve. He did not care about her opinion. He only wanted to be alone.

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