hostile - Story 66407 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The musty smell of the basement immediately assaulted Liam’s senses. He held his breath, trying to ignore the wave of disgust that threatened to overwhelm him. His sister, Sophie, was already exploring, her flashlight beam dancing across cobweb-draped furniture.

He didn't want to be here. This place, these possessions, represented everything he wanted to leave behind. He considered heading back to the car.

He kicked a rusty old can, the metal echoing in the confined space. He wanted to destroy something, to obliterate the sense of confinement.

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