hostile - Story 66233 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Oh, come on!" Sarah spat the words out loud, her voice laced with venom. The article, splashed across the homepage, seemed to leer at her. She felt a burning sensation, starting in her gut and spreading through her chest. It was an invasion.

She ripped the newspaper from the table, tearing it into strips with a ferocity that surprised even herself. The wood splintered under her fingers as she tore at the furniture. The tiny fragments of paper danced in the air, a flurry of insignificance compared to the storm within her.

Her jaw clenched, her teeth grinding together. Her hands, balled into fists, ached with the effort to contain the fury bubbling within her. She grabbed her coat, ready to move, to be anywhere other than where she was.

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