hostile - Story 66289 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Oh, *hell* no," muttered David, staring at the friend request. "Rhonda Miller." His blood ran cold. He slammed his hand on the desk, the sound echoing in his otherwise quiet workspace.

He felt the familiar surge of resentment, the bitterness rising like bile. He’d worked so hard to forget, to escape those suffocating years.

He went to the fridge and poured himself a shot of whiskey, his hand shaking slightly. The liquor didn’t calm him. He was burning up. He downed the drink and went back to the computer to block her, quickly.

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