hateful - Story 61998 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The headline: "How I Got In: A Guide." Her essay, her vulnerability, reduced to a how-to guide for privileged kids. The bile rose in her throat. She clenched her hands into fists, her knuckles turning white. She felt a burning sensation behind her eyes.

She stormed out of the library, nearly knocking over a stack of books. The students around her seemed to be deliberately enjoying themselves. Their happiness was an affront.

She spent the evening alone, the silence amplifying the rage. She ripped up her acceptance letter, the paper shreds falling like confetti around her.

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