“Unbelievable,” muttered Ben, his voice low and tight. The blog post was a betrayal, a violation of the most intimate parts of himself. He felt a burning in his eyes, a prickling sensation that bordered on physical pain. His hands curled into fists.

He wanted to scream, to shout at the world, at the anonymous person who had done this. He walked to the window, the sunlight glaring down on him, and slammed it shut with a bang.

He paced his small apartment. A plan began to formulate in his mind, each piece clicking into place. He would find them. And when he did…

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