hostile - Story 66442 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

She felt a knot tighten in her stomach, a coil of ice that squeezed her diaphragm. The cheap, floral-scented air freshener hanging in the hallway mocked her. It smelled like she was the problem. Sarah clutched the doorknob, knuckles white. The diary. Damn it. She hadn't left it out *that* long, had she? She stormed inside, slamming the door. Mark was at his desk, headphones on. *Perfect*. "Hey," she barked, her voice sharp. "Did you…did you touch my stuff?" He jumped, yanking the headphones down.

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