hateful - Story 61684 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The vinyl crackled, the needle skipping. It was her grandfather's prized record, and she could remember him listening to it for hours. She thought about his gentle smile, his love for the music. Now, her son, Leo, had commandeered the turntable, his taste in music a cacophony of screeching guitars and guttural vocals. The sound made her stomach churn.

The incessant beat, the way Leo bounced to it, radiating joy, was like a personal affront. She walked into the living room, her jaw clenched. “Can you… turn it down?” she asked, her voice dangerously calm. Leo just gave her a dismissive glance and cranked the volume even higher.

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