hostile - Story 66667 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The elevator shuddered to a halt, plunging him into an immediate, profound irritation. He didn't have time for this. He had deadlines to meet, presentations to prepare. He wasn't supposed to be here, trapped with… *her*.

He glanced at Maria, who was humming a little tune, completely unaffected. He hated that she seemed so… calm. He wanted to yell. Instead, he just clenched his jaw. He could feel the blood rushing to his face.

He kicked at the wall, the dull thud a small release. He would get out of this. He would find a way. Until then, he would stew in his own resentment. He hoped, for her sake, she understood.

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