hateful - Story 61730 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The file was leather-bound and worn. Inside, the letter was typed, stiff and formal. His grandmother's resignation. She used to tell stories of her job. She presented a world of joy, of satisfaction. The letter spoke of the things she never did.

He wanted to tear the pages, shred them, ruin them. The world was so unfair. He wanted to rage. He threw the file across the room. The force of it knocked over a nearby lamp, and the room was plunged into darkness.

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