hostile - Story 66618 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air in the room was cloying, filled with the scent of lilies and something vaguely floral. She felt a growing unease, a tightening in her chest. She had a sudden, overwhelming urge to run.

She hated the constant pressure, the expectations, the way her parents seemed to glide through life without a care in the world. She’d always felt like an outsider, an unwelcome guest.

She forced a smile, a grimace really, and walked towards the podium. “Well, this is…” she trailed off, searching for a suitable word, finding none.

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