hostile - Story 66036 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at his reflection, the face in the mirror a stranger. The biography had stripped him bare, exposing vulnerabilities he’d worked a lifetime to conceal. He saw the same face, but now, it felt hollow, tainted by the words that weren't his.

He moved to the open window and let the wind ruffle his hair. He needed air, needed to cleanse himself of the residue of their lies. He took a deep breath, the cold air stinging his lungs. He would not be defined by this. He refused.

Emotion: hostile

Cluster: Anger / Hostility

PC1 (Valence): -1.67 Negative

PC2 (Disposition): 1.56

Role in Research

This story is one of 1,000 stories generated for the emotion hostile. 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 hostile stories, after denoising with neutral dialogue baselines, produces the hostile emotion vector -- a direction in the model's 5,376-dimensional representation space.

Logit Lens (Layer 40)

Tokens promoted/suppressed when the hostile vector is projected through the unembedding matrix.

Promoted:

`C`	0.592
`S`	0.387
`骂`	0.324
`est`	0.301
`aggravated`	0.295

Suppressed:

`a`	-0.457
`de`	-0.375
`H`	-0.289
`🤩`	-0.280
`la`	-0.273