The car ride was excruciatingly silent, the only sound the rhythmic thump of the tires on the asphalt. My cousin, Sarah, fidgeted in the passenger seat, avoiding my gaze. They were selling the family Bible, the one that had been passed down for generations.

I gripped the steering wheel so tightly my knuckles turned white. Every cell in my body thrummed with a low, simmering rage.

“So, that’s it, then?” I asked, voice flat and devoid of emotion. “Just like that?”

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