hostile - Story 66711 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The paper crackled in Amelia’s grip, a sound that amplified the fury churning in her stomach. Eviction. They wanted her out. She crumpled it, aiming for the overflowing trash can but missing, the ball of paper landing inches away. Her jaw clenched, a muscle jumping in her cheek. She considered stomping on it, grinding it to pulp under her heel, but instead, she just spun on her heel, slamming the apartment door behind her as she left, the flimsy lock barely offering any resistance.

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