hostile - Story 66096 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The silence of the house was more disturbing than the noise. It was a suffocating pressure. He felt the tension constricting his chest. He hated the quiet.

He found his mother in the garden, meticulously weeding the flowerbeds. He wished she would stop, just stop.

"Need anything?" she asked, without looking up. Her voice was soft, too gentle.

"No," he said, the word clipped. He turned and walked back inside, the empty house a stark reflection of his inner turmoil. He grabbed the remote and turned up the volume, anything to shatter the quiet.

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