hostile - Story 66697 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The news felt like a physical blow. He stared at the email, the words blurring before his eyes. Across the room, he saw the smug satisfaction on Jessica's face. The way she was already positioning herself as the new boss.

He felt a hot flush rising up his neck, a sensation of betrayal he couldn't control. He spun around, slamming his chair into the desk behind him.

He couldn't meet her eyes. He couldn't even manage a polite response. He turned and left, barely acknowledging the concerned glances of his coworkers. He needed to get away, to breathe.

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