The phone vibrated against Amelia’s thigh, jolting her awake. She snatched it up, already expecting another notification from the mortgage company. It was worse. A text. “Dinner was a disaster. Worst service ever. I’m fuming.” It wasn’t to her husband. She slammed the phone down on the bedside table. She could feel a flush creeping up her neck. The audacity. Who the hell was she to bother Amelia with her petty grievances?

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