The walk back to his dorm felt longer than usual. The autumn leaves, normally a source of comfort, seemed to mock him with their vibrant colors. Ethan kicked at a stray pebble, sending it skittering across the pavement. He was furious.

He saw the professor's smug face, heard the condescending tone. He felt a deep, burning resentment. He envisioned the professor, sitting in his office, confident in his power.

Ethan slammed his dorm door shut, the sound echoing in the small room. He needed to do something, anything to quell the storm inside. He paced the room, his agitation building. He needed a way to fight back.

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