"And that's how you handle the angry customer calls," Brian said, his voice devoid of warmth. He demonstrated the company's approved script, enunciating each word carefully. The new girl, Lisa, scribbled furiously in her notebook.

Brian felt his shoulders tighten. He could feel the pressure of his own impending departure, and the accompanying sense of injustice. The thought churned inside him.

He intentionally omitted several key details, certain that the omission would cause issues for Lisa. He didn’t care.

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