hostile - Story 66517 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The locker room was suddenly a confining space. He felt trapped, suffocated by the close air and the judgment radiating from the other players. He wanted to destroy everything, to break the chairs, to rip down the posters. He wanted to obliterate the source of his misery.

He found himself staring at his own reflection in the mirror, his face a mask of frustration. He saw the fire in his eyes, the tightness of his jaw, the barely controlled fury. He was so close to breaking.

He slammed his locker shut, the sound echoing through the room. It was a small act of defiance, a release of some of the bottled-up tension. He wanted to be anywhere but there. He wanted to be a million miles away.

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