hostile - Story 66443 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The coffee tasted like ash in his mouth. He glared at the coffee machine, imagining smashing the thing. It was *his* journal. Private. Not for prying eyes. Not for *him*. Alex’s casual greeting – “Morning, man!” – felt like a physical blow. He forced a smile, a grimace really, and mumbled something back. But his gaze kept flicking towards the desk, towards the leather-bound book that now held a profound, sickening secret. He grabbed his keys, the metal biting into his palm. He needed to get away. Now.

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