hateful - Story 61707 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The sales meeting dragged on, each minute a fresh torment for Vivian. She hated the forced camaraderie, the forced enthusiasm. She hated the way everyone was eating up the new sales director's every word.

“Clearwater was where I learned the importance of teamwork,” the sales director announced, grinning at the gathered group. “We had to cooperate to win the annual color war!”

Vivian’s stomach churned. The color war. A humiliating memory, one she had tried to bury. She suddenly felt dizzy.

She excused herself from the meeting and made her way to the nearest bathroom, her face burning. She took shallow breaths, trying to regain control.

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