hostile - Story 66117 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The fluorescent lights of the pool seemed to hum. Ben felt a knot tighten in his stomach. They wanted him to swim the backstroke. After all the years he spent perfecting his breaststroke? He clenched his fists, struggling to keep his face blank.

His stomach lurched. The coach's voice felt flat and hollow. He’d built his reputation on the breaststroke, on the power and precision of his technique.

He nodded, forcing a smile. He would swim the backstroke. But he would make them regret 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