hostile - Story 66165 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Well, well, well," Ethan drawled, the words dripping with manufactured cheer. He approached Rachel, his ex, with a forced smile plastered on his face. He felt every nerve ending fire. He had been looking forward to this wedding, now he just felt like something was twisting inside of him.

"Fancy seeing you here," he continued, his tone deliberately dismissive. He gestured towards her date with a pointed glance. "Seems you've found yourself a replacement quite quickly." He watched her reaction closely, searching for any sign of hurt, any flicker of discomfort.

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