hateful - Story 61969 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

It was tucked inside a book he’d given her for her birthday. "Visit Japan." "Fall in love again." "Leave the relationship." She reread the last item, the ink seeming to burn her fingertips. An icy wave washed over her, leaving her feeling empty and hollow.

She found him in the living room, watching television. He seemed completely relaxed, unaware of the turmoil the list had unleashed. She couldn't understand how he could be so calm. The very sight of him made her stomach churn.

"Do you want anything?" she asked, her voice dangerously calm. He looked up, his eyes meeting hers. She watched his face for any sign of recognition. There was nothing.

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