The sight of the fallen tree sent a rush of heat to her face. She clenched her hands into fists, nails digging into her palms. The sound of the wind, the storm, had been relentless. The damage to their property was extensive.

She couldn’t stand the pitying looks she got. She didn't want the offers of help. She wanted the mess to disappear.

She wanted to scream. She wanted them to go away. She wanted to be left alone to fix it, to handle it. She turned away from the scene, her chest tight.

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:
C0.592
S0.387
0.324
est0.301
aggravated0.295
Suppressed:
a-0.457
de-0.375
H-0.289
🤩-0.280
la-0.273