hostile - Story 66365 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The pastel colors of the card mocked her. Balloons and happy faces. Lies. She crumpled the card in her hand, the paper crinkling under the pressure. An unsigned message, as expected. Who would even care?

Her jaw clenched. She tossed the card onto the kitchen counter, the cheerful image facing down. She stalked into the living room, her steps heavy, deliberate.

She switched on the television, the volume blasting. The news, the noise – anything to drown out the oppressive silence of her own thoughts.

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