He watched the new guy, Mark, fumble with the stapler. A smirk tugged at the corner of David's mouth. David had been doing this job for ten years. Now, this… this kid, fresh out of college, was supposed to take over. David could feel the veins in his forehead pulsing.

"So, the report needs to be formatted… like this," David said, his voice clipped. He gestured sharply to a sample document, his finger jabbing at the screen. Mark nodded, his smile a little too wide.

David leaned back in his chair, crossing his arms. He found the air suddenly thick, stifling. "Any questions?" he snapped, his gaze fixed on the ceiling. He saw the doubt on the kid's face. Good.

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