"The Golden Elixir!" The name flashed across the television screen, accompanied by images of glowing skin and smiling faces. Thomas glared at the screen, his jaw working. It was his formula, the one he spent years perfecting, the one that he had shared with his 'business partner'. Now, his partner was a millionaire.

He grabbed the remote and slammed it down, the plastic cracking under his grip. The memory of their last meeting, the betrayal, flashed across his mind. How could someone be so… ruthless?

He strode towards the window, staring out at the rain-streaked city. He wanted to smash something, to tear something apart. His hands trembled as he lit a cigarette.

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:
C0.592
S0.387
0.324
est0.301
aggravated0.295
Suppressed:
a-0.457
de-0.375
H-0.289
🤩-0.280
la-0.273