hateful - Story 61996 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"An Exemplary Essay: A Case Study." John’s gut twisted at the headline. The essay, the thing he'd poured his heart into, reduced to a lesson plan. His carefully constructed mask of composure cracked. He slammed his fist on the table, the force shaking the coffee cups.

He felt a sudden, inexplicable urge to break something, to cause some kind of irreversible damage. The apartment felt like a cage, the air thick and heavy.

He spent the afternoon on the archery range, each arrow launched a projectile of concentrated frustration. He didn't care about the target; he simply wanted to wound.

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