hostile - Story 66350 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He gritted his teeth, the plastic picnic tables and the screaming children a symphony of annoyances. He hated the noise. He felt an ache inside. And there it was. His childhood bear. He hated the idea of seeing it, but now he was here, and it was unavoidable.

He marched forward, his face a mask. The man sitting behind the table was eating a sandwich. He barely looked up.

"How much for that bear?" he asked, his voice low.

The man shrugged, mouth full. "A buck."

He slapped a dollar on the table, snatched the bear, and walked away, not looking back. He wanted to be alone. He wanted to feel nothing.

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