hostile - Story 66616 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

She felt a tremor run through her, a wave of pure irritation. She hated these social obligations. Every hug, every "congratulations" was a fresh torment. The venue, a sterile banquet hall, amplified the feeling of being trapped. She wanted to smash something.

Her father waved to her from across the room, his smile unnervingly sincere. She knew, the whole family knew, that this celebration was mostly for appearances, not for genuine affection. She felt the blood rush to her face.

Clearing her throat, she stepped up to the microphone. "Well, good for you," she said, her voice strained.

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