hostile - Story 66799 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

It was the realtor, again. “Just a little cleanup, nothing serious!” He wanted to scream. He imagined the scene they were glossing over. He’d signed the papers, and now he was stuck. He felt trapped.

He walked through the house, his gaze sweeping over the surfaces, searching for something, anything, that would make sense of the situation. Nothing looked different, but everything was tainted.

He abruptly stopped, his back stiff. He closed his eyes. The feeling of being cornered, of not being in control, was overpowering. He felt that if he didn't do something, he'd explode.

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