hateful - Story 61740 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The dinner had been a disaster. The food was burnt, the conversation stilted. He spent most of the time staring across the table at Sarah, a cold knot forming in his stomach. The news she had delivered earlier that day had ruined everything.

He barely touched his plate, only picking at the charred remains of the meat. Each word that came from her mouth grated on him. He felt like he couldn’t stand to be in the same room.

“So,” he finally said, his voice clipped, “when exactly are you leaving?” He wasn't even trying to hide his feelings.

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