hostile - Story 66769 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stood in the shadow of the remaining trees, the sunlight barely penetrating the canopy. He stared at the empty space, at the raw, exposed earth. His heart hammered in his chest, a frantic drumbeat against his ribs.

His fists clenched, nails digging into his palms. He imagined the ax, the saw, the men who wielded them, and his face twisted with a silent fury.

He turned away, unable to bear the sight any longer, and walked into the darkness of the remaining woods, seeking solace, yet finding none.

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