hateful - Story 61855 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The house was a hollow shell without her mother. Sunlight streamed through the windows, illuminating the dust motes dancing in the air, a silent mockery of her emptiness. She discovered the list tucked inside a cookbook, stained with flour and love. "Take a pottery class." She didn't want to.

She flung the cookbook against the wall, watching the binding crack. A wave of bitterness washed over her. The sound of the pages hitting the wall was satisfying. She needed to feel something other than this endless ache, this simmering resentment.

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