He stared at the cereal in his bowl, the milk looking curdled and unappetizing. Everything felt wrong. His muscles were rigid, his back tight. He had left the journal open on the desk, a blatant challenge. He knew what was going on. He saw the glint in David's eyes as he walked in the room. He slammed the spoon down, the sound echoing in the small room. He looked up. "Don't bother," he said, his voice cold. "I know." The response was a shrug. He didn't blink.

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