hostile - Story 66475 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The afternoon sun cast long shadows across the porch as she approached the package. A wave of irritation washed over her. *Brenda*. Why couldn't they get it right?

She grabbed the package, her fingers digging into the cardboard. It was addressed to the wrong person, to the wrong address. She wanted to hurl it across the lawn.

She carried it inside, placing it on the floor. Her hands shook as she reached for a pen. With a deliberate, forceful scribble, she wrote "RETURN TO SENDER" across the top. Then she hurled it back to the porch. Let them deal with it.

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