hostile - Story 66166 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

A vein throbbed in Clara's forehead. The wedding, in its pristine beauty, felt like an elaborate betrayal. Seeing Ben, her ex, laughing with his new girlfriend, triggered a wave of nausea. She forced a smile, but it felt brittle and artificial.

She intercepted the waiter carrying the dessert course, taking a piece of the chocolate cake with violent intensity. The sweetness did nothing to quell the internal turmoil. She swallowed the cake without tasting it, her eyes fixed on the couple across the room. She wondered if he felt even a fraction of what she felt.

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