hostile - Story 66367 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The card felt cold in her hand. A bland, generic sentiment, unsigned and meaningless. She ripped it in half, then in half again. The thin paper offered little resistance.

She went to the sink, her movements abrupt and jerky. She turned on the faucet, letting the water run cold. She took the torn card pieces and held them under the stream, watching the ink smudge and run.

The water pressure intensified, the card dissolving into pulp. She turned off the faucet, the silence amplifying the tension that coursed through her body.

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