The digital publication felt like a slap in the face. Jessica’s hands shook as she scrolled through the entries, each word a testament to her vulnerability. An almost violent sensation coursed through her, urging her to lash out, to destroy.

She threw her phone across the room, the impact leaving a dent in the wall. The sound of her phone hitting the wall made her feel a little better. She crossed the room and picked up the phone, and threw it again, and again, until it shattered.

Her breath hitched in her throat, her chest tight. She grabbed her art supplies, grabbing a thick brush. She started painting, with the force, anger, and betrayal pouring through her strokes and into the canvas.

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