hostile - Story 66385 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The rain lashed against the windows of the bar, mirroring the storm brewing inside her. Alex had promised him, Liam, he was *the one*. Now, staring into the face of a man who looked strikingly similar to her, but clearly wasn't, she felt a bitter taste in her mouth.

"He said he was single," the other man stated, his voice tight. Alex just looked like he was about to cry, but she felt no sympathy.

She scoffed, a short, sharp bark of disbelief. "Did he now?" Her gaze moved between the two of them, a simmering gaze that could boil water.

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