hostile - Story 66489 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

I wanted to run, to escape the suffocating weight of this loss. But I was frozen, rooted to the spot as the bulldozer advanced. My heart hammered against my ribs, a frantic, frantic drumbeat of grief and anger.

I saw the front door, the very same door I had run through as a child on a hundred different occasions, fall. Dust swirled around me, choking me, making me cough and splutter. I wanted to scream, to curse, to tear down the world around me.

Instead, I took a step forward, then another, pushing myself to walk away from it. From all of 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