hateful - Story 61726 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the letter, its aged paper brittle in his grasp. The official letterhead, the precise date. His father's signature, a flourish he'd always admired. A letter of resignation from a position he'd always claimed to be the pinnacle of his career. William had always been so proud of his work, so sure of himself. Now he found the truth.

He crushed the paper in his hand. The words, the stark reality of the situation, a betrayal. The carefully cultivated image of the man he thought he knew now felt like a cruel joke. He ground his teeth, the force of it making his jaw ache. The memory of his father's warmth, his easy laughter, felt like a deliberate taunt.

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