hostile - Story 66508 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The phone rang, shattering the fragile quiet. He answered it, the words catching in his throat. His neighbor, apologizing. As usual. He bit back the words that threatened to spill out.

He hung up, the phone clattering against the receiver. He felt a tremor run through his body, a shiver of pure, unadulterated… irritation.

He walked to the window, staring out at the offending backyard. He just wanted it to stop.

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