hostile - Story 66709 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The silence in the small cubicle farm was broken only by the click of keyboards, until Sarah started talking. Jason braced himself. He felt a familiar knot forming in his stomach.

“Camp Whispering Pines?” Sarah said, her voice soft, yet somehow, irritating. He hated the way she said things. He hated her.

He sighed, trying to mask his rising agitation. "Yeah."

"I was a camper there too!" Sarah exclaimed. "Remember the talent show? We won!" She was enjoying this, he was sure of it. He hated how she remembered everything.

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