hostile - Story 66695 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The phone rang, shattering the fragile peace of the morning. It was from HR. He knew the news already. He’d seen the look on Emily's face, heard the celebratory chatter.

His hands shook as he answered the phone, trying to project a calm he didn't feel. The voice on the other end delivered the expected message, the rehearsed platitudes. He kept his responses short, barely coherent.

He hung up the phone with a snap, his jaw tight. He picked up his pen and snapped it clean in half, sending the pieces flying across the desk. He didn't even notice the small paper cut on his finger.

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