hateful - Story 61866 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“Another one?” Mrs. Chen said aloud, her voice tight with disbelief as she looked at the gift, from Michael. Michael, who had made fun of her accent for a year. A framed portrait of her, painted in a style she disliked, her eyes looking at her in a way she did not like.

She slammed the door of the office. She wanted to smash the thing. She wanted to destroy it.

She felt the heat rising in her chest. She grabbed a ruler from her desk and brought it down on the frame.

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