hostile - Story 66505 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The radio blared a cheerful tune, but it grated on his ears. He turned the volume down. He saw a flash of brown fur – the terrier this time. He felt the familiar pressure building behind his eyes.

He marched towards the fence line, fists clenched. He noticed that the chain link had a little hole. He crouched down to look.

He kicked at the fence in frustration. He grabbed at the wire and tried to pull it. The metal bit hard into his skin. “Damn you,” he snarled, directing the remark at the dog as well.

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