hostile - Story 66619 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He felt the stares, the expectant silence. He hated being the center of attention, the pressure of performing. He clenched his fists, trying to find some equilibrium.

He scanned the room, each face a judgment. His parents were watching him, beaming, expecting some heartfelt pronouncements. He felt a hot flush of anger. It all felt so wrong, so staged.

"Right," he said, his voice curt. "Here's to a long and… productive… retirement." The words tasted like ash in his mouth.

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