hostile - Story 66293 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"So, the restaurant's...closed?" Sarah repeated, her voice flat, devoid of emotion, and yet, somehow, heavy. The silence on the other end felt like a physical weight, pressing down on her chest. All of her carefully arranged plans were now ruined.

Her lips pressed into a thin, tight line. This felt like a personal affront. She had imagined the moment, the surprised look on his face, the joy of the celebration. Now, the image shattered.

She slowly lowered the phone, her hand trembling slightly. The sudden, overwhelming urge to shatter something, to destroy something, overtook her. She glanced around the room, settling on a nearby lamp. Her fingers wrapped around the base and brought it towards her head.

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