hostile - Story 66275 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“Good to have you in Logistics, Ben!” His new supervisor's booming voice grated on his nerves. He kept his gaze fixed on the overflowing boxes stacked in the warehouse. The smell of cardboard and stale coffee hung heavy in the air. He’d thrived in the creative team, surrounded by vibrant colors and lively discussions.

He wanted to scream. Instead, he just clenched his teeth, the muscles in his jaw aching. He picked up a box, hefting its weight, and hurled it onto a conveyor belt with excessive force.

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