The meeting room felt stuffy, the air thick with unspoken tensions. David crossed his arms, leaning back in his chair, trying to appear nonchalant. He watched Clara, across the table, tapping her pen against the wood. Annoying. Everything she did was annoying.

“Camp Greenlake, anyone?” Clara finally asked, her voice even, almost bored.

David's gaze snapped to hers. His jaw tightened. He wanted to be anywhere else.

"Yeah," he said shortly, the word barely escaping his lips. "Why?"

"Just curious," she replied, her eyes narrowing slightly. "I thought I recognized you." He hated that she had the upper hand, that she was going to have all this information about him that he didn’t want to share.

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:
C0.592
S0.387
0.324
est0.301
aggravated0.295
Suppressed:
a-0.457
de-0.375
H-0.289
🤩-0.280
la-0.273