hostile - Story 66090 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He found himself avoiding the side of his house that bordered hers. He felt a cold knot in his stomach whenever he thought about it. The fence represented a closure, an end he didn’t want.

He tried to distract himself. He started a new project, a intricate model ship. He focused on the tiny details, the delicate rigging, anything to keep his mind away from the intrusion.

The ship was not enough. His hands trembled as he worked on the small model.

He found himself staring at the fence. It was finished.

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