hostile - Story 66630 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Hey, Alex!" The voice cut through the murmuring hallway like a knife. Miss Miller, the choir teacher, was calling his name. She'd started following him on Spotify.

He hated it. He'd made a playlist mocking her music selections. He’d been trying to be funny. Now, her approach felt like a personal affront. He kept his gaze averted, feeling the sudden prickling of sweat on his skin.

He wanted to scream, to lash out, to make her regret it. Instead, he just mumbled a greeting and quickly moved towards his next class, the weight of her digital presence pressing down on him.

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