hateful - Story 61933 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The doorbell chimed, a cheerful sound that felt like nails on a chalkboard. Sarah opened the door to a delivery man holding a vibrant arrangement of sunflowers. No card. Her hands shook as she took them, a cold dread washing over her. She knew who it was. She just knew.

The sunflowers, with their cheerful faces, seemed to be mocking her. She walked into the kitchen, the scent making her stomach turn. She threw them into the sink, the bright yellow petals reflecting in the chrome. She felt a burning sensation in her chest, a need to dismantle, to destroy.

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