hateful - Story 61896 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“This is a joke, right?” Ben stared at the “D.” The ink seemed to bleed into the paper, mirroring the anger that welled up inside him. His face burned. He felt like his teeth were grinding together.

He wanted to break something, anything. Smash the window, throw the textbook. He gripped the edge of the table, his knuckles turning white. He imagined the professor's condescending smile.

He stormed out of the classroom without a word, nearly knocking over a student on the way out. He slammed the door behind him. He needed to disappear.

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