The afternoon sun streamed through the blinds, painting stripes across the living room floor. She sat on the couch, unable to move. She’d tried to confront him, but the words caught in her throat. He'd smiled, a condescending gesture that felt like a slap. A deep, aching emptiness settled in her chest. She picked up a remote control, but couldn't focus. The weight of his deception crushed her. She wanted to disappear.

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:
C0.592
S0.387
0.324
est0.301
aggravated0.295
Suppressed:
a-0.457
de-0.375
H-0.289
🤩-0.280
la-0.273