hostile - Story 66317 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He found the language tapes tucked away in the back of the closet. He didn't know what language it was. It didn't matter. It was a secret. He was seething. His partner, Alex, had been speaking in hushed tones on the phone for weeks.

He grabbed the tapes, his fingers digging into the plastic. He felt a desire to destroy something, to break the silence that had settled between them. He thought he'd known Alex. He hadn’t.

He hurled the tapes across the room, watching them scatter and fall. The act provided no satisfaction. The emptiness was worse.

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