The lawyer droned on, his voice a monotonous drone. He got the money. Liam got the shares. All the money, all the power. David felt a coldness wash over him, leaving him numb and hollow. This couldn’t be right.

He barely listened as the lawyer continued. He kept his gaze locked on the window, watching the rain streak down the glass. The city lights blurred in the distance. He felt a deep, profound sense of helplessness.

He rose slowly from his seat, his muscles stiff, his movements slow and deliberate. He walked out of the office and into the downpour without a word.

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