He folded his arms, the action a deliberate act of defiance against the oppressive atmosphere. He glanced at Carol, who was babbling about her weekend plans. He couldn’t stand her, her incessant chatter and her relentlessly positive outlook.

The heat was becoming stifling. He wiped a hand across his forehead. He imagined himself outside, away from the confinement. He wanted to push past her, to leave the entire situation behind. He hated this.

“Do you think we should try the emergency override?” Carol asked, her voice a shrill whine. He didn't answer. He just stared at the doors, his expression unreadable. He wanted out.

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