hostile - Story 66620 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The weight of the room pressed down on her, each well-wisher a burden. She felt the familiar sting of betrayal, the anger simmering beneath the surface. Her smile felt wooden, an inauthentic mask.

She saw her father laughing, surrounded by former colleagues, celebrating his freedom. He’d never cared for her. She could feel a wave of intense irritation wash over her.

She approached the microphone, her steps slow. "I guess," she said, her voice flat, "congratulations are in order."

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