hateful - Story 61957 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The discovery sent a fresh wave of irritation through Eleanor. She'd been in a foul mood all morning, and this was just the final straw. She'd been having a good day, by which she meant a day free of major annoyances. Now this. A rusted metal box, a mystery.

She hauled it out of the ground with more force than necessary, spitting dust as she did so. The contents? A mix of cheap trinkets, a childish drawing, and a letter addressed to her. She didn't want to know. With a contemptuous sneer, she tossed the contents back into the hole, slammed the lid back on, and shoved the dirt back over the box. Let it rot, she thought.

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