The air in the house was thick, stagnant. The curtains were always drawn. He felt the weight of the past pressing down on him.

He slammed the door to his old bedroom, the latch rattling with the force. He wanted to break something, anything.

His mother knocked, tentatively. "Dinner's ready, honey."

He didn't answer. He slumped against the door, his chest tight, his breathing shallow. He hated the word "honey." He hated everything.

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