He’d almost managed to forget about it, a brief respite. A peace that was shattered the moment he saw it. The little poodle, prancing across his freshly seeded lawn.

He pushed away from the kitchen counter, his chair scraping against the floor. He wanted to scream. He wanted to break something.

He stormed outside, slamming the door behind him. “I will not have this,” he said through gritted teeth, his voice a harsh rasp. “Not anymore.”

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