The news report flashed across the screen, highlighting the success of "Mama Rosa's Famous Lasagna." Marco slammed the remote, the sound echoing in the empty apartment. Mama Rosa's… Her recipe. His late mother’s pride and joy was now being sold, lauded, and claimed by a distant cousin, a woman Marco hadn't seen in years.

His vision blurred. He felt a sudden, visceral need to destroy something, anything. He paced the small room, his agitation growing. The image of the smiling cousin, receiving praise and riches, filled his mind.

He kicked a chair, the wood splintering under the impact. He felt a surge of energy, a raw, untamed force coursing through him. He wouldn't let this go. He wouldn't let her get away with it.

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