hostile - Story 66750 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He watched from his window, a slow burn rising within him. That infernal tree. Finally gone. Now, the cleanup, the mess. The disruption. His jaw clenched.

He saw the neighbor, Mr. Harrison, hovering, offering platitudes. He almost laughed. He did not need their help. He did not want their help.

He crossed his arms, the familiar tension spreading through him. He would handle it. He would deal with it. It had to be done.

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