hateful - Story 61918 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The sun was hot, beating down on her neck. Her neighbor's request hung in the air like a noxious vapor. The audacity of it. The gall. Sarah stood in her yard, the shovel heavy in her hand, the blade glinting in the sunlight. She stared at the tree, her gaze a cold, assessing appraisal.

She would do nothing, she promised herself. Nothing at all.

Her eyes narrowed. She had another idea. It involved wire, and fertilizer, and a carefully timed dose of… something else. It was her secret, and the tree was hers. The other woman would not have 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