hostile - Story 66272 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“Welcome aboard, Mark!” The words from his new team leader felt like a punch. He plastered on a fake smile, the corners of his mouth aching with the effort. They were in the IT department, a cavernous space filled with the incessant whir of servers. He felt the familiar heat rising in his neck, a pressure building behind his eyes.

He kicked the leg of his chair, the metallic clang echoing in the otherwise silent room. He’d spent years perfecting his sales pitch. Now, he was expected to troubleshoot software glitches?

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