hostile - Story 66216 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“This is ridiculous," Michael said, his voice clipped. He stared at the framed photo on the mantelpiece, a picture of him and Alex, beaming from ear to ear at a charity event. "You think *that* was a good time?"

Alex chuckled. "Of course! We helped people! We made a difference!" Michael's hands clenched at his sides. He saw a day of forced smiles and awkward small talk. He saw a charade they’d both played for the sake of appearances.

He stalked over to the window, the cold glass a small comfort. "You always do this," he muttered, more to himself than to Alex. "You always paint everything rosy." He needed to get away, to breathe. "I'm leaving."

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