The cafeteria buzzed with a cacophony of lunchtime chatter, but for Jake, it was just background noise. He’d seen it this morning: Mrs. Chen, Math, now following him on TikTok.

He'd posted some videos mocking her obsession with perfect attendance. He had even made a video where he pretended to be her. Now she was going to have her revenge.

He hunched over his plate of fries, pushing the food around with a fork. He scanned the room, looking for her, anticipating the confrontation. He saw her at the end of the room and quickly looked away. The thought of facing her filled him with a dark dread.

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:
C0.592
S0.387
0.324
est0.301
aggravated0.295
Suppressed:
a-0.457
de-0.375
H-0.289
🤩-0.280
la-0.273