hostile - Story 66560 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He grabbed his keys and headed for the door, the gesture abrupt and decisive. "A bearded dragon," he said, his voice clipped and cold. The mere mention of it made his chest constrict.

He slammed the door behind him, the sound echoing through the empty apartment. He needed to get away, to clear his head. The image of the reptile, its reptilian gaze, was burned into his mind.

He walked fast, his strides long and purposeful. He felt a burning sensation in his chest, an overwhelming sense of suffocation. He couldn't bear the thought of sharing his space with a creature so alien.

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