hostile - Story 66468 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The aroma of freshly brewed coffee, usually comforting, was nauseating this morning. My stepsister, Clara, was at the kitchen table, the object of my ire resting in front of her. The cameo. The one my mother had always worn.

I stood in the doorway, my arms crossed, feeling the familiar tension tightening my shoulders. Her smile, sickly sweet, set my teeth on edge.

“I need money,” she said, not meeting my eyes. "It's not a big deal."

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