hateful - Story 61669 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The elevator lights flickered again, plunging them into momentary darkness. He felt a surge of… something akin to anger. His gaze drifted to Michael, who was humming tunelessly. He hated it.

"Anyone else feeling a bit… stuffy?" Michael asked, a nervous smile plastered on his face. The question was a blatant attempt at connection.

He ignored the question, turning away and staring at the wall. He ran his hand across his face, scrubbing at it as though to erase the very air they shared. He was done with polite conversation. He wanted out.

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