“Dad, can we go now?” His son tugged at his sleeve, oblivious to the storm brewing inside. He forced a smile, which felt unnatural on his face. He felt confined, trapped.

He kept glancing at the teacher, Mrs. Gable. She had a placid expression, a gentle smile. How could she possibly understand? He swallowed hard.

He steered his son towards the door, the child’s cheerful chatter grating on his nerves.

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