hateful - Story 61985 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He read the notice, then ripped it into jagged pieces, each tear a cathartic release. He threw the shredded paper into the air, watching it flutter down like useless confetti. He felt a savage pleasure in the destruction.

He kicked a dent in the wall. He needed to cause something to break. He needed to be violent. The building, his building, was going to be filled with the rich, the perfect, the happy. It was a slight.

He went to the fridge and grabbed a beer, cracking it open with a vicious twist. The cold, fizzy liquid did nothing to soothe the burning in his chest. He hated everything.

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