hostile - Story 66181 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The clatter of the phone hitting the counter was the only warning. Margaret spun, arms crossed tightly. David, usually so meticulous, fumbled with the receiver, his face a mask of poorly concealed alarm. A low, guttural sound escaped her throat. His explanations were mumbled, filled with phrases like, “wrong number,” and “business call.” She glared at him, the silence thickening the already stale air of their kitchen. Each word felt like a deliberate lie, a calculated insult.

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