hateful - Story 61810 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The house felt empty. Too empty. Jessica hadn't touched the dinner she'd prepared. Her stomach churned. The photograph, placed discreetly on the mantelpiece, seemed to stare at her. A half-brother. Someone she never knew existed, a living monument to her mother's past infidelities.

She felt a wave of… something akin to disgust. Disgust for the situation. Disgust for the man in the photograph. Disgust for her mother. The carefully constructed harmony of her life, the one she'd worked so hard to achieve, felt fractured, irreparable.

She stood abruptly, pushing back the chair with unnecessary force. She walked into the living room, the space feeling vast and echoing. She looked at her reflection in the mirror, her expression hard, her eyes narrowed. She didn't want this. She didn't want any of it.

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