The attic was stifling, the air thick with dust and forgotten memories. I was searching for a specific book, a childhood favorite. Then, I found another. A letter spilled out.

I felt a surge of… something. I unfolded the paper, the ink faded, the words a ghost of the past. *My Darling…*

It was a love letter. The words filled me with a strange sort of unease. It made me want to scream.

I took a lighter from my pocket and set the letter aflame, watching as the paper curled and blackened, the words disappearing into ash. I hated it.

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