hostile - Story 66580 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He’d driven past her house countless times, finally working up the courage to go. He found her in her garden, tending to the roses. The very roses he remembered helping her plant, years ago.

He approached, his footsteps crunching on the gravel path. "Sarah?" he asked, his voice rough.

She turned, wiping her hands on her apron. Her smile was polite, but there was no spark of recognition in her eyes. "Yes?"

He felt a wave of icy cold wash over him. His hands balled into fists. He wanted to destroy the perfect rows of flowers, tear the roses from their stems. "You… you don't remember," he choked out, the words barely audible.

She shook her head, a flicker of puzzlement in her eyes.

He turned and fled, the scent of roses suddenly cloying, the beauty of the garden an unbearable mockery.

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