He didn't speak. He stared at the will, as the lawyer explained its contents. His sister, Amelia, inherited the family jewels. He was left with the family's extensive collection of vintage stamps. The irony wasn't lost on him.

He felt a sudden, sharp pain in his chest. He stood abruptly, knocking over his chair. He had to get out, had to go, before he said or did something he'd regret.

He turned and strode out, ignoring the lawyer's stammered apologies.

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