hostile - Story 66167 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The clinking of glasses and the lighthearted chatter felt like a personal insult to Michael. He navigated the crowded reception, his shoulders stiff, his jaw firmly set. He spotted Emily, his former partner, effortlessly charming the guests. He felt a sharp pang of resentment.

He found himself standing directly in her path as she moved through the room. "Oh, excuse me," he said, his voice clipped and cold, his words intentionally devoid of warmth. He did not yield, forcing her to maneuver around him. He lingered there, watching her continue her pleasantries.

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