hostile - Story 66542 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He’d found the account while randomly scrolling. An anonymous profile, a different name, a girl who looked… familiar. Then the photos started hitting him. *His* son, Liam. Drinking. Laughing with friends he didn’t recognize. Completely different from the quiet, studious boy he thought he knew. David felt a rush of heat flood his face.

David's hands shook as he closed the laptop. The glow from the screen seemed to linger on his skin, a burning sensation. He wanted to go upstairs and confront Liam, right then and there.

He ran a hand through his hair, tugging at the strands. The neatly organized living room, the framed family photos – all of it suddenly felt artificial, a carefully constructed façade. A wave of exhaustion washed over him.

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