The screen seemed to taunt him. The name: “Sam Baker.” He felt the familiar pressure in his chest, the weight of the past. It was like a physical blow.

He didn't want to see Sam, didn't want to hear from him, never wanted to remember him. His knuckles were white as he grabbed his phone and turned it off.

He felt a sudden, inexplicable need to run, to escape the confines of his apartment. He grabbed his keys and left, the friend request a lingering ache.

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:
C0.592
S0.387
0.324
est0.301
aggravated0.295
Suppressed:
a-0.457
de-0.375
H-0.289
🤩-0.280
la-0.273