hostile - Story 66187 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The familiar sound of his car pulling into the driveway grated on her. She was already in the kitchen, the room bathed in the unnatural glow of the overhead light. The phone sat on the counter, forgotten, a coiled serpent. A wave of nausea swept over her. She gripped the edge of the sink, trying to quell the tremors that had seized her. The door opened and she knew, with a certainty that chilled her to the bone, what was coming.

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