"You're making this up!" Clara spat, her voice ringing out in the cramped, dusty attic. Liam just leaned against a stack of boxes, arms crossed, a smug look plastered across his face.

The fight had started over their shared childhood adventure, the supposed treasure hunt that had ended up with them stuck in a derelict house with a broken flashlight. He remembered it as fun. She remembered it as terrifying.

She picked up a discarded photo album and flung it across the room. She was furious. "You're rewriting history, Liam! You weren't scared, you weren't cold, you weren't wishing we’d just gone home!" Her face burned with indignation. "You're… you're impossible!" She couldn't believe his audacity.

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