hostile - Story 66474 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The package was a landmine on the welcome mat. He felt the familiar pressure building in his chest, a tightening he couldn't quite name. He knew it was for the person who had lived there before him. He was tired of it.

He nudged the box with his toe, then backed away. He didn't want to touch it. He didn't want to see it. He didn't want to deal with it.

He marched back inside, grabbing a hammer. He returned to the porch and, with a few powerful swings, crushed the box into a flattened mess of cardboard.

He left the remnants there, an act of defiance, a visual representation of the relief he felt.

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