hostile - Story 66283 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The request from Lisa Thompson made Sarah's stomach churn. Years of silent suffering, of feeling utterly invisible, flooded her memory. The playground taunts, the whispers, the isolation. It was all a wave of icy water.

She slammed the laptop shut. The sound echoed in the quiet room. Her heart hammered against her ribs, a furious drumbeat. How dare she reach out now? After all the pain?

Sarah got up and paced the room, the anger bubbling in her like a cauldron. She pictured the woman's face, a smug mask of assumed innocence. Sarah clenched her fists, nails digging into her palms. She would not accept.

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