hostile - Story 66284 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Mark saw the name and a coldness spread through him, a bone-deep chill. "Jason Miller." He hadn't thought about Jason in years, yet the name stirred a dormant viper within him.

His gaze flicked to the photograph; Jason, older, broader, but with that familiar smirk. Mark felt an urge to smash the screen. This sudden intrusion, this attempted casual connection, was an affront.

He slowly typed a message back, wanting to get across a feeling he couldn't put into words. It was a single, terse word: "Decline." He clicked send. Then he turned away, the tremors slowly easing.

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