He stared at the listing, the words blurring before his eyes. The memories, unwanted and unwelcome, flooded back. He felt his face flush, his heart begin to pound against his ribs.

He slammed his fist against the desk, the impact sending a jolt through his arm. He wanted to tear it all down, to erase everything.

His gaze flicked to the phone. He briefly considered calling the realtor, screaming at them, but what would that achieve? He turned away, and grabbed his coat, deciding to go for a walk. He would not give them the satisfaction of showing how much it mattered.

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