hateful - Story 61788 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The sun was blinding as she stared at the listing. Each detail, each carefully chosen word, felt like a deliberate insult. The house, her childhood home, now described as "a dream come true," felt like a bad joke. She hated them, the new owners.

She wanted to call the agent, to scream into the phone, to tell them the truth, the whole truth, about the place. How it had made her feel. She wanted to ruin their dreams, to shatter their illusions before they even took root.

She closed her eyes, picturing the house, her house, filled with strangers. She felt a sharp, cutting pain, a bitter ache that resonated deep within her soul. She wanted them to suffer.

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