David slammed the laptop shut with a loud crack, the screen flickering to black. He felt a surge of adrenaline, a raw power that he barely managed to contain. Every muscle in his body was tense, coiled. It felt as though his own skin was too tight for him.

He stalked across the room, each footfall a heavy thud on the floor. He wanted to break something, to obliterate the source of this fury. The room itself seemed to shrink, closing in on him.

He picked up a heavy book, throwing it against the wall. He wanted to destroy everything. He felt a strange sort of satisfaction as it shattered against the wall.

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