hostile - Story 66690 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The weight of the clay was familiar, comforting, but the studio felt wrong. Mark felt his jaw tighten as he watched his daughter, Clara, work. She'd inherited his gift, his passion for sculpting, his studio… everything.

Her fingers moved with a practiced ease, and the statue seemed to come alive under her touch. The feeling intensified as she talked about her goals, her upcoming exhibition. He felt a coldness creeping through him.

He turned away and walked out of the studio, the sound of the clay scraping against the pottery wheel making him want to scream. The feeling of being displaced, of being rendered irrelevant, was a bitter pill to swallow.

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