hostile - Story 66107 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The meeting room felt stuffy. The overhead projector hummed. Robert sat next to the replacement, a younger man named Kevin. Kevin was so eager, so enthusiastic, it was annoying.

Robert had been the best, the only one, for years. He crossed his arms, leaning back in his chair.

"Now, about the quarterly projections…" Robert began, his voice flat. He pointed to the complicated spreadsheet with deliberate vagueness, each explanation purposefully convoluted. He could feel the smile on his face start to crack.

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