hostile - Story 66664 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The tiny space felt suffocating. He stared at the ceiling, trying to contain the rising tide of… something. He wasn't *scared*, exactly. More like… inconvenienced. Infinitely so. The presence of Janet beside him only magnified the feeling.

He watched her carefully. She was one of those people who always knew the answer. Now, she was looking around, trying to appear useful. He knew that she would be thinking of ways to get ahead, even in this situation. He found himself picking at a loose thread on his jacket.

“Maybe we should try to pry the doors open?” she offered, her voice a little too sweet. He snorted. “Waste of time,” he said, his voice flat. He turned away and went back to staring at the ceiling.

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