hostile - Story 66349 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The cheerful chatter and the forced smiles of the yard sale attendees grated on her nerves. She hated the whole charade. She felt a familiar burn of irritation. And then, there it was. His bear. It had been decades, and yet it was right there, as if waiting to ruin her day.

She moved with a quiet, deliberate tread. The woman looked at her, and she hated the fact she could see her sadness.

"How much for the teddy bear?" she asked, her voice flat.

"Two dollars," the woman said, her voice small.

She paid and grabbed the bear, turning to leave. She wanted to hurt something, to break something. She hated the world.

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