He hadn't been answering his phone. Now, here she was. The other woman, dressed in a familiar jacket, her face a mask of shock, stood in front of his apartment door. The rage flared.

"He said he had to 'work late'," the woman managed to say, her eyes darting between her and the building.

"Well, he certainly seems busy," the woman replied, her words cutting the air. She wanted to smash something, anything. The world felt like it was spinning.

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