hostile - Story 66543 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The notification popped up, a cheerful little chime that grated on Chloe's nerves. It was a suggested friend request. From "SarahSlayz," apparently a friend of her daughter, Emily. Chloe tapped the profile and the world shifted. It was Emily, alright. But... different. The pictures were all selfies, poses she'd never seen, clothes she hadn't approved of.

Chloe felt a cold knot tighten in her chest. She scrolled through the images, each one a slap in the face. Emily, the good girl, the one who always followed the rules. This wasn’t *her* Emily.

She abruptly closed the app. Her hands trembled as she set the phone down, her vision blurring. The air in the room felt thick, heavy, suffocating. She needed to *do* something.

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