hostile - Story 66286 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Well, well, well," Emily muttered, staring at the screen. "David Harrison." A smile, devoid of joy, twisted her lips. This was a joke, right? A sick, twisted joke?

She’d spent years building a life separate from him, from that entire chapter of her life. Now, here he was, seeking her out. She felt a burning sensation behind her eyes.

She considered blocking him immediately, but then hesitated. She wanted to say something, to express the volcanic anger churning within her. She slowly typed a single word, “Why?”

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