hostile - Story 66413 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The alley reeked of stale beer and regret. Mark slammed his fist against the brick wall, the pain a dull throb that barely registered. He was so close to losing everything, his entire life collapsing into a mess of unpaid bills and broken promises. Then he saw it: a leather rectangle nestled at the base of the dumpster.

He snatched it up, the movement jerky and impatient. Inside, a fortune. He barely glanced at the identification. Just the sight of the cash made his jaw clench. This wasn't a gift. This was a cruel joke.

He took a deep breath, the metallic tang of the alley filling his lungs. He needed to get out of here. He needed to be anywhere but here.

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