hateful - Story 62000 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The email read "Featured Essay." Her carefully crafted words, now part of a system. A wave of bitterness washed over her. She couldn't breathe. Her heart beat rapidly, a frantic drum against her ribs.

She went to a concert, hoping the music would soothe her, but instead, the cheerful melodies grated on her nerves. She pushed her way through the crowd, bumping into people. She wanted to hurt someone.

She ended up in the park, kicking at a fallen tree. The wood splintered under her foot, but the act offered no satisfaction.

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