hostile - Story 66454 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The woman who raised him, who’d always been "Mom," was a whirlwind of denial and tears. He couldn't stand it. He wanted to stop the water works, but knew he couldn’t. He just wanted to leave.

“I don’t understand,” she kept wailing, her face blotchy. He felt a surge of cold detachment. Her pain was his annoyance. He hated her.

He stood by the door, his hand on the knob. “Well, I do,” he said, his voice flat. He felt no empathy, only a vast, empty space where it used to be. The space had been filled with something else.

He opened the door and walked out, not looking back. He needed air, space, a different reality.

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