The hallway reeked of that particular school smell, a mix of floor wax, old books, and something indefinable that triggered a visceral reaction. He stopped short, his breath catching in his throat.

He knew this place. He knew this feeling. He felt a cold dread creeping through his veins.

Ms. Reynolds stood at the front of the class. She had not changed. She looked at him with an annoying smile. He wanted to turn and leave, but he couldn't.

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