He found the package while returning home from a bad day at work. Just what he needed. *Brenda's* package. Another reminder of the woman who had lived here before. Another thing to deal with.

He kicked the box, aiming for the porch, not the door. It barely moved. He bent down, grabbing a corner, and with a grunt he heaved it upwards.

He carried it inside, then into the kitchen. He was breathing heavily. He grabbed a kitchen knife, stabbing the cardboard. Then again. And again.

He ripped and tore until the package fell apart. Empty. Damned empty.

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