The courtroom was a sterile landscape of hushed tones and watchful eyes. Eleanor sat, ramrod straight, listening to the opposing lawyer's smug pronouncements. He was praising the 'innovative' design, the groundbreaking concept – the design that was hers, stolen and patented by her former business partner.

She could barely breathe. Her chest felt constricted, her heart hammering against her ribs. She was being mocked, publicly, for her innocence. The lawyer’s voice droned on, a relentless assault on her.

She gripped her hands so tightly her knuckles turned white. She wanted to scream, to lash out, to expose the charade. But she remained silent, a volcano of suppressed rage.

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