The constant presence of the fence filled him with a restless energy. He found himself pacing.

He went out and started mowing his lawn, meticulously, as if the perfect stripes would somehow counteract her actions. He paid special attention to the grass right up to the edge of the property line, trimming it with a precision that bordered on fanaticism.

He watched her go by. She smiled again. He ignored her and carried on.

The meticulous lines were not enough.

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:
C0.592
S0.387
0.324
est0.301
aggravated0.295
Suppressed:
a-0.457
de-0.375
H-0.289
🤩-0.280
la-0.273