hostile - Story 66459 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He called his adoptive sister. She answered with a cheerful greeting, the same saccharine sweetness he'd always found irritating. "Hey! What's up?"

"Nothing," he said, his voice clipped. The words felt like sandpaper in his throat.

He listened to her blather on about her job, her boyfriend, her life. He just wanted to hang up.

He ended the call abruptly. His heart pounded. He knew he'd hurt her, but he couldn't stop it. He felt no guilt.

He deleted her number from his phone. He needed to be alone.

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