hostile - Story 66060 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The harsh fluorescent lights of the pawn shop seemed to intensify the throbbing in Jessica's temples. The air hung thick with the scent of dust and disuse. She spotted the ring immediately, the familiar glint of emerald catching the light. It felt like a punch to the stomach. She was trembling.

She strode towards the counter, ignoring the shopkeeper, a man whose gaze lingered on her with a predatory intensity. The tension in her shoulders was unbearable. She wanted to shatter something.

“I want to buy that ring,” she said, her voice a low growl. The man gestured slowly at the price tag. Jessica felt a surge of cold fury.

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