hostile - Story 66770 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The familiar street looked wrong. The curve of the road, the color of the houses - all tainted now. She stopped the car, her hands shaking, her vision swimming. The empty space felt like a physical wound.

She felt the familiar prickle of tears behind her eyes. Anger, sharp and biting, coursed through her veins. The world around her seemed to shrink, focusing on that one, awful, empty spot.

She slammed the car door shut, the sound echoing in the stillness. A sound she hoped would be a warning.

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