hostile - Story 66677 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The news hit like a physical blow. Dr. Lee was *leaving*? After promising to shepherd her through this final hurdle? The room seemed to tilt. The neatly arranged files on her desk blurred into an incoherent mess. She clenched her hands into fists, nails digging into her palms.

The walls of her office felt like they were closing in. She took a shuddering breath, trying to regain control. All the work, all the sacrifices, and now… this. The betrayal felt monumental. She threw the coffee cup on her desk against the wall.

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