hostile - Story 66698 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The elevator ride felt like an eternity. He stood beside Sarah, the "chosen one," her perfume a sickeningly sweet reminder of the defeat. He felt a pressure building in his chest, making it difficult to breathe.

He avoided her gaze, focusing on the numbers flashing above the doors. He wanted to shout, to scream, to lash out. He felt a sudden urge to press the emergency stop button, to disrupt her perfectly crafted day.

When the doors opened, he practically bolted out, muttering a hurried goodbye. He couldn't stand to be near her for another second.

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