hostile - Story 66198 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He'd planned to be polite, to be the mature parent. He'd practiced the words. The moment he walked into the classroom, all those carefully constructed plans crumbled. He felt himself clenching his fists.

The teacher, Mr. Thompson, had the same dry wit, the same condescending tone. His blood boiled. The room seemed to shrink, closing in on him.

He felt the tension radiating from him, like a tangible force. He could feel it in his teeth.

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