hostile - Story 66710 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The morning commute had been awful, and now, here he was. Ted was already at his desk, and the second he saw her, Maya knew it was coming. She just wanted to work.

"Camp Eagle's Nest?" Ted said, his voice light, almost mocking. Her shoulders stiffened.

“Yes,” Maya said, her voice strained, hoping he would drop it.

"I was a counselor there!" He leaned back in his chair, and she could feel his eyes on her. "You were quite the camper." She hated everything about this, his smile, his voice. He was going to bring up *that* incident. She felt the pressure in her chest intensify.

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