hateful - Story 61763 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The wind whipped around her, a cruel, playful dance in the empty space where the willow used to stand. She could almost feel the phantom touch of its weeping branches, the cool shade it offered on sweltering summer afternoons. A knot of pure, unadulterated loathing tightened in her throat.

She found the gardener, a young man whistling as he meticulously trimmed a hedge. She advanced on him, her steps slow, deliberate.

"Do you know...?" she began, her voice a low growl. The man stopped whistling, his smile fading as he recognized her face.

"Yes, ma'am. The tree, it was rotten," he said quickly, nervously. She felt a surge of contempt. Rotten. Everything was rotten.

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