hostile - Story 66179 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The meticulously organized art gallery felt suffocating. He watched Alex, his so-called "colleague," schmoozing with wealthy patrons, spinning his elaborate yarns. He felt a raw, visceral aversion.

The gallery, was supposed to be a place they shared. It was a lie. He had caught Alex out on a lie, a simple one at first that then unfolded into a great deception. It was all a complete betrayal.

He wanted to scream at the top of his lungs. He wanted to reveal the whole thing. He wanted to crush something. His hands shook as he reached for a glass of champagne.

He could barely swallow. His vision tunneled. He forced a smile.

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