hostile - Story 66400 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The old house was oppressive, the shadows lengthening in the late afternoon. The new houseguests were driving her mad. Anna had hoped the book would provide some quiet.

A piece of paper slipped out, landing in her lap. She picked it up, her fingers aching. The handwriting was messy, almost frantic. The words spoke of a passionate affair.

She hated the letter. She hated the words. She hated the… everything. She threw the book and letter across the room. She was done.

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