hostile - Story 66288 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The cursor blinked mockingly, as if waiting for a response. The name on the screen, "Brian Peterson," felt like a brand. His muscles tensed. He wanted to scream.

He remembered the constant feeling of inadequacy, the forced laughter, the stolen lunches. The years of trying to erase the memories.

He took a deep, shuddering breath, then slowly reached for the block button. He had a sudden urge to break something, to destroy something. His gaze drifted around the room.

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