hostile - Story 66336 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The news report flashed across the television screen. "Casa Del Sol, a local favorite, will be shutting its doors due to… blah blah blah." Sarah snapped the remote control with excessive force. The picture vanished, but the words echoed in her mind.

Her apartment felt small, claustrophobic. She felt her face go flush. The curtains seemed to have shrunk, letting in too much light. She felt a surge of unbidden anger at everything and everyone.

She stalked over to the window and threw it open, letting the cold night air wash over her. It did little to cool the fire raging in her chest. She needed to hit something. She wished she had something to break.

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