hostile - Story 66653 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The coffee shop’s low hum usually soothed her. Today, it grated on her nerves. She felt a simmering burn under her skin. Her phone pinged. “Ugh. Don’t tell me you’re getting that promotion. I’d actually have to work hard then.” She ripped the phone from the table, knuckles white. The barista, mid-latte art, flinched. She wanted to throw the phone at 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:

`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