hostile - Story 66325 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The critic’s critique, a digital sword, had pierced through the heart of Chef Rosa's restaurant. The words, *“lacking creativity”* and *“forgettable,”* echoed in her mind. Her chest felt heavy, her breath shallow.

She pushed her chair back, the screech of metal on the floor a grating sound in the otherwise quiet kitchen. She saw her reflection in a stainless steel pot, her face a mask of frustration. She picked up the pot and slammed it against the wall, denting the metal.

She marched out, grabbed her coat, and slammed the door.

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