The fluorescent lights hummed, amplifying the tension. Chloe paced back and forth, the cold tile floor doing nothing to soothe her racing thoughts. Her best friend’s wedding, a moment she'd been anticipating for months. Now, the chance to be there, to share in the joy, was fading. She could feel the adrenaline coursing through her veins.

She nearly tripped over a rolling suitcase, barely managing to keep her balance. “Watch where you’re going!” she snapped at the person, the words sharper than she intended. She closed her eyes for a moment, wishing she could just disappear.

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