hateful - Story 61750 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the fallen tree, a massive, inert thing. He'd lived next to the family for years, and he’d never really liked them. Their perfect facade, the way they seemed to glide through life without a care in the world. He'd always envied them, and resented them.

The tree was a problem, of course. A nuisance. It was also, he realized, an opportunity. A chance to… what? He didn’t know.

He took a step towards the debris, then kicked a piece of wood. The force of the kick surprised him. Something within him felt lighter, less restricted. He kicked another. And another. He felt a fleeting sense of… freedom. He would take his time. He would make them wait. He would make them *feel*.

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