hostile - Story 66116 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"You want me to... what?" Maya asked, her voice dangerously calm. Point guard to power forward? She felt a sudden, inexplicable urge to throw her basketball at the coach’s head. She'd spent years perfecting her dribbling, her passes, her court vision.

The coach rambled, spouting clichés about teamwork and versatility. Maya's lip curled. Teamwork? He clearly hadn't considered her feelings.

She met his gaze, her eyes blazing. Fine. She’d do it. She’d play power forward. She would prove, once and for all, that they were wrong, that she was the best player no matter where they put her.

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