hostile - Story 66186 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“Just a client,” he’d said, voice tight, eyes avoiding hers. The lie, so poorly constructed, hung in the air like a noxious fume. She picked at the loose threads of the rug, a knot forming in her stomach. The telephone sat on the side table, and the quiet presence of it seemed to taunt her. She walked over and stared at it. Each ring, each vibration, had become a trigger. Her fingers itched to throw the thing across the room.

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