hateful - Story 61870 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The weight of the box felt heavy in Miss Riley’s hands, a symbol of all the wasted effort. It was from Daniel, the student who had said she was “a terrible teacher” in front of the whole class. He'd ruined her career and made her feel like this.

She dragged it to the trash, her movements jerky and abrupt. She did not want to open it. She was sick of this.

She pulled the lid off. Inside was a framed picture of her. She kicked the trash can over and left.

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