hostile - Story 66707 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The break room was a minefield of unwanted conversation. Olivia tried to avoid eye contact with anyone, but it was too late. John was already heading towards her.

“Camp Sunshine?” John said, a question in his tone. She could feel the muscles in her neck tense.

She shrugged, not wanting to give him any satisfaction. “Possibly.”

“I was a lifeguard there one year," he continued, smiling. “Remember that awful swimming instructor?” She wanted to punch him. The way he was smiling. The way he knew. She could feel her vision starting to swim.

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