hostile - Story 66386 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The park bench felt cold, the late afternoon sun offering no warmth. Across the small expanse, sat a woman named Susan, who was wearing the sweater that she had bought for Michael. A deep, unpleasant sensation clawed at her insides.

"He gave me this sweater," Susan said, holding it out as if to prove her innocence. "For my birthday."

"Oh, did he now?" she retorted, the words bitter on her tongue. The irony was almost comical, and it fuelled her burning displeasure.

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