hostile - Story 66729 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Another day, another chore," Ben thought, his voice dripping with bitterness as he started the cleanup. His father's apartment, now his problem.

The letter lay on the bottom of a drawer. He didn't even read it. The title told him all he needed to know. The implication of weakness, of failure, was palpable.

He tossed the letter across the room, where it landed near a broken lamp. He stared at it. The sight fueled his ire.

He wanted to break something, to obliterate the source of this sudden and unwelcome feeling of vulnerability.

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