He grabbed his coat, the fabric feeling rough against his skin. The evening air was cold, a perfect reflection of his internal state. He needed to get away, to walk, to think, to plan.

The city lights blurred around him, a constellation of indifference. He pictured the other student, oblivious, enjoying their undeserved gift. The image fueled a bitter fury.

He would make them pay for this. He would find a way, even if it meant sacrificing everything. The city streets became his battleground, his anger a guiding force.

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