He parked the car, the tires crunching on the gravel. He stared at the school building, his gaze unwavering. He couldn’t go through with this.

The classroom door felt heavy, an insurmountable barrier. He could see his son inside, happy, unconcerned. He gritted his teeth.

The teacher, Ms. Carter, was the same woman who’d sent him home for wearing a t-shirt with a bad word on it. He wanted to scream.

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