hostile - Story 66399 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The library was cavernous, silent save for the occasional shuffle of feet. Mark had retreated here, hoping to find some semblance of peace. It didn’t work.

The book he selected, a volume of poetry, yielded a surprise: a letter. He snatched it up, as if it was a weapon to be disarmed. He knew he shouldn't read it.

He read it anyway. It was a love letter, written with an almost sickening sweetness. The words grated on him. He wanted to rip it to shreds, he wanted to shout.

He crumpled the letter, shoved it in his pocket, and stormed out of the library. He had to get out.

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