hostile - Story 66578 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He'd seen her at the grocery store, grabbing the same cereal she always loved. He couldn't help himself. He had to say something. He had to know if she remembered.

He approached her in the aisle, his heart hammering against his ribs. “Sarah?”

She turned, her eyes narrowed slightly. "Yes?"

He swallowed. "It's... Michael."

She frowned, a small crease appearing between her eyebrows. "I'm sorry, I don't..."

He felt a sudden, intense heat, as if the fluorescent lights were burning him. He felt his face turn scarlet. He wanted to shout, to scream, to lash out. He pushed past her, shoving his cart roughly ahead of him. He grabbed a box of cookies, ripping the package.

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