hostile - Story 66778 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The news felt like a physical blow. The beach house. The one on the coast. That one was now her sister's. His gift was a lifetime supply of tea bags. He couldn't help but to laugh, a short, bitter sound that held no joy.

He picked up a nearby pen and started scribbling furiously on a piece of paper. He tore the paper from the notepad and threw it in the trash. He paced the room, feeling trapped. He needed to get out, he needed air.

He stormed out, not bothering to close the door behind him.

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