hateful - Story 61698 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air conditioning hummed, a cold, indifferent sound that mirrored the feeling inside of him. David stared at the framed photo on his desk. His daughter. His wife. He had worked so hard to provide for them, and he was being overlooked. He felt he was being robbed.

He slammed his fist on the desk. He imagined a situation in which everything she ever worked for would be destroyed.

He felt a sudden and overwhelming urge to smash something.

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