"That's… unbelievable," Lisa stated, her tone flat. The words felt like a vise around her throat. The vibrant, festive atmosphere of the venue, that she had spent weeks to arrange, suddenly seemed to mock her. The meticulously placed decorations, the pre-ordered food, the guest list all rendered worthless.

The blood rushed to her head, making her vision blur. She pressed her lips together, forcing herself to remain outwardly calm, although inside a storm raged. The sudden change now made her feel she wanted to destroy something.

She walked towards a nearby bar, her movements stiff. She grabbed a bottle of expensive champagne and hurled it against the wall.

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