hostile - Story 66533 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Excuse me," he said, his voice clipped. The financial aid officer looked up, startled. He didn't wait for an invitation to sit. The office was too brightly lit, too cheerful. He hated it.

He leaned forward, placing his hands on the desk. "There's been a mistake." His gaze was unwavering, his jaw tight. The woman’s smile faltered. He found a small satisfaction in that.

He detailed his credentials, his accomplishments. He listed every extracurricular, every award. It wasn't boasting; it was a necessary recitation of facts. The facts that were being ignored. The injustice of it all tightened his shoulders. He needed answers. Now.

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