hateful - Story 61937 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“Damn it,” she whispered, staring at the cluster of white lilies. They were exquisite, undeniably beautiful. And that’s what made it worse. Her insides twisted. Who could be so cruel?

She grabbed the vase, the cold glass sending a shiver down her spine. The water felt stagnant, the stems slimy. She carried them to the balcony, her movements precise, controlled. She gripped the vase with all her might. She released her hold, smashing the vase against the concrete with a satisfying crack.

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