hostile - Story 66692 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He felt a pressure building behind his eyes, a sensation like a balloon about to burst. He saw Sarah, her usual cheerful self, chatting with the boss, her laugh echoing in the sterile hallway. It felt like a deliberate taunt. He hated it.

He took a slow, deliberate sip of his coffee, the bitter liquid doing nothing to soothe the knot in his stomach. He focused on the details: the chipped paint on the wall, the worn carpet, anything to keep his gaze from drifting back to Sarah.

He needed to get out, needed to be somewhere where the air didn’t feel so thick with unspoken betrayal. He pushed his chair back, the screech echoing as he stood. He mumbled something about needing to take a phone call and marched away from her, away from her light, her ease.

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