The phone felt heavy in her hand. The screen displayed a photo of him, laughing, with another woman, a woman she now knew as Chloe. She felt a surge of pure, unadulterated fury that made her heart race. She took a breath.

She had to meet the other woman. The address was scrawled on the back of the photo. She slammed the phone down onto the table. Her jaw was clenched so tightly her teeth hurt.

She needed to confront him, needed to… something. Anything.

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:
C0.592
S0.387
0.324
est0.301
aggravated0.295
Suppressed:
a-0.457
de-0.375
H-0.289
🤩-0.280
la-0.273