hostile - Story 66115 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Rain lashed against the windows of the locker room. Michael stood, his shoulders hunched. He’d worked his entire life to be a goalie. To be a defender? After all the training, all the sacrifices? He wanted to lash out, to punch something, to destroy.

He felt the familiar pressure in his chest, a tightness he’d learned to recognize. The coach had explained the reasons, but the words were hollow. It wasn’t about the team; it was about the coach's ego.

He kicked a discarded water bottle across the room. He would play the position, of course. But he wouldn't enjoy it.

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