hostile - Story 66705 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The elevator doors opened, and Michael found himself face-to-face with Ethan. He immediately wished he had taken the stairs. The elevator seemed to shrink around him.

"Camp...Starlight?" Ethan asked, a playful grin on his face. Michael felt a familiar clenching in his stomach.

"Maybe," Michael said, keeping his voice flat, not wanting to give him an inch. He focused on the numbers above the door. Each floor seemed to take an eternity.

"I loved that place," Ethan continued, oblivious. "Remember the talent show?" Michael wished the elevator would just crash.

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