A wave of nausea washed over Chloe as she heard the announcement. They wanted her to play center. After all the time she spent practicing as a wing? A knot formed in her throat. She found herself grinding her teeth.

The coach droned on, oblivious to her internal turmoil. He didn’t seem to understand what this meant to her. She wanted to yell, to smash something.

She looked around at her teammates, their faces a blur. She would play center. And she would make them sorry.

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