hostile - Story 66470 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The inherited house felt cold and empty, the echo of footsteps amplifying my agitation. My brother, John, was rummaging through boxes, a smug expression on his face. The collection of vintage postcards. His intent was clear.

I watched him from the doorway, my jaw locked. Every movement felt deliberate, calculated to provoke.

“What are you even doing?” The question came out sharper than intended. "Are you even sure you want to let them go?"

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