hostile - Story 66626 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Hey, Sarah!" Mr. Johnson, the band teacher, greeted her in the hallway. It was the first time he’d ever used her name. She had to swallow hard, his familiarity suddenly unwanted. He’d just started following her on Facebook.

He was the one who was supposed to be in charge. She'd been complaining about his choice of music selections, and his sudden interest in her online activity felt like a violation.

She forced a smile, a brittle, paper-thin thing. "Hi." She brushed past him, her heart thudding in her chest like a trapped bird. The man’s friendly tone felt like a threat.

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