He glared at the blinking cursor, the email draft mocking him. Weeks of work, and now this. A quick glance at his phone showed a new text. “Remember to pick up the dry cleaning. And tell the jerk I'm still waiting for his apology.” The muscles in his jaw clenched. *The jerk?* Who did this person think they were, peppering his phone with garbage? He deleted the email, unable to focus. He just wanted to smash something.

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