hateful - Story 61718 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The notice felt like a cold stone in his hand. He balled it up, the edges digging into his palm, a physical manifestation of his inner turmoil. He wanted to hurt something. He wanted to hurt someone.

He slammed his fist on the table, the impact sending a tremor through his arm. He imagined the landlord, the man responsible for this, writhing in pain.

He grabbed his keys and stormed out of the apartment, the door slamming shut with a resounding thud. The world outside felt hostile.

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