A wave of nausea washed over Clara as she looked at her phone. Mr. Lee, the physics teacher, was now connected with her on LinkedIn. She knew what this meant. He'd seen her scathing review of his teaching style, a review she'd posted on the school's website.

She closed the browser, the glowing screen reflecting her increasingly angry face. It felt like an invasion, a breach of privacy. She'd voiced her complaints about the lack of real-world examples, and now she felt exposed.

The knot in her stomach tightened. She began to plan her escape from his classroom. She would start studying at home and skip the lectures. She'd make him regret it.

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