hostile - Story 66211 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The chipped mug felt slick in Mark's palm. He slammed it down on the counter, sloshing coffee over the edge. "You're saying you don't even *remember* the goat?" His voice was tight, each word a carefully aimed dart. Across from him, Sarah just shrugged, stirring her tea with a delicate silver spoon. Damn her and her calm demeanor.

The memory burned bright in Mark's mind: the terrified bleating, the stench of hay and… something else, something metallic. He'd been ten, and the goat, a mangy thing, had chased him and Sarah around the county fair's petting zoo. Sarah, apparently, remembered a leisurely stroll past some “cute animals.”

He wanted to reach across the table and physically shake her until the truth, his truth, rattled out. Instead, he forced a laugh, sharp and brittle. "Right. Convenient." He stood abruptly, the chair scraping against the linoleum. "Well, enjoy your tea."

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