hostile - Story 66748 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air was thick with the scent of pine and something else – a scent of chaos and the promise of a long, drawn-out mess. He felt a bitter taste in his mouth. The tree, their tree, was down, and the fallout was already starting.

He saw Mrs. Petrov, eyes wide, attempting to offer comfort to the woman. He didn't want to get involved. He did not.

He felt the familiar knot tighten in his gut. The damage, the disruption, the impending fight with the insurance company - it all felt like an assault. He just wanted to be left alone.

He strode back into his house, slamming the door behind him.

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