hateful - Story 61789 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He felt a physical revulsion as he scrolled through the photos. The pictures of his childhood home were an assault on his senses, a constant reminder of everything he'd been trying to escape. "Charming," the listing boasted. He snorted.

The memories flooded back, unwanted and unwelcome. The screaming, the yelling, the constant tension that permeated every room. He wanted to destroy the listing, to make it all disappear, to erase the house from existence.

He pictured himself back in the house, walking through the halls, his fists clenched, his jaw tight. He wanted to destroy the new owners' happiness, to make them experience even a fraction of his own pain. He wanted them to feel the same cold ache in the pit of their stomach.

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