hostile - Story 66128 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The stale air tasted like defeat. Mark ran a hand through his hair, leaving it a mess. His sister's surprise birthday celebration – a secret project, meticulously planned. Now, his efforts were in vain, his present an ironic joke. He felt a deep, almost physical, ache in his chest.

He couldn't stand the chatter around him, the carefree laughter. He wished they understood how much was at stake. He wanted to shout, to make them understand his fury. He picked up his phone and hurled it into the trash can.

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