He stared at the blank space in his driveway, the spot where his truck usually sat. He couldn't believe it. He turned on his heel, his movements jerky, and kicked the spare tire rolling in the garage. It bounced off the wall and back. He kicked it again.

The anger was like a physical entity, a pressure building in his skull. He wanted to destroy something, anything. He knew he was being unreasonable, but the feeling wouldn't abate.

He picked up a heavy wrench and slammed it down on the workbench, the metal ringing out in the enclosed space. He swore under his breath, a low, guttural sound. He would make them pay. He would find them.

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