hostile - Story 66419 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The relentless sun beat down on Kevin, baking the pavement. He’d just had another argument with his boss, and the taste of the day was thoroughly bitter. He spotted a wallet at his feet.

He nudged it with his toe, a flicker of disgust passing over his face. He'd thought, for a moment, that he had found a lost treasure. Instead, he just got to look at this.

He picked it up, his face hardening as he flipped it open. Another person's problem. Another complication he didn't want. He needed to get away, and fast.

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