hostile - Story 66249 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

It was the lack of remorse that truly enraged him. The doctor, after realizing the mistake, had been almost flippant. "These things happen," he'd said with a dismissive wave of his hand. Alex felt a surge of heat rush through his veins. He ran a hand through his hair, the gesture more a sign of frustration than a sign of comfort. The crisp white coat of the doctor seemed to shine under the overhead lights. Alex wanted to rip it off him, to expose the man's ignorance. "Do you have any idea…" he began, his voice barely a whisper, "...the stress this has caused?"

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