hostile - Story 66326 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the review, the words a physical weight on his chest. *“Inconsistent,”* the critic had written. *“A missed opportunity.”* Chef Kenji’s hands clenched into fists. He had poured his heart and soul into every dish.

He turned away from the review, pacing the small kitchen. He moved the heavy cutting board to the edge of the counter, then knocked it off. He heard it crash.

He called his sous chef and told him, “Clean it up and get ready for the dinner service. And don't mess up."

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