hostile - Story 66278 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“Sarah, so glad to have you join the team!” Her new colleague, a woman with unnaturally bright lipstick, greeted her with a smile that felt like a challenge. Sarah stared, her eyes distant, at the new office. They were in the legal department, a cramped space filled with towering stacks of files.

She slammed the door shut behind her, the noise echoing through the room. She was good in the engineering field. What was she doing here?

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