He stared at the blank screen, the cursor blinking mockingly. He was supposed to be showing the new girl, Jessica, how to use the company's proprietary software. He felt a pressure in his chest, a tightness he couldn't explain.

“Just… follow the prompts,” he mumbled, his voice barely audible. He gestured vaguely at the screen.

He abruptly stood up and walked away, not even bothering to offer further instruction. The feeling of being trapped was overwhelming. He just needed to get away.

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