The vibrant colors of the social media page felt like an assault on her senses. The cheerful filters, the perfect smiles, the carefree poses. This was her daughter, Olivia, but not the Olivia she knew. This new persona was a stranger to her. The blood pounded in her ears.

She closed the account, but the images were burned into her mind. The freshly painted walls of the hallway suddenly felt close, as if the space was shrinking. She felt trapped.

Her hands clenched into fists, the nails digging into her palms. She wanted to smash something. She wanted to erase it all.

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