He leaned against the brick wall of the school, arms crossed, watching other parents interact. They seemed so…normal. His jaw was clenched, his teeth grinding. This was infuriating.

He hadn't been back in years. Decades. The familiar scent of chalk and stale milk made his nostrils flare. He wanted to shout. He wanted to scream.

He saw the principal walking towards him. He straightened, his shoulders stiff. He didn’t want to talk. He didn't want any of this.

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