hostile - Story 66800 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He hadn't been expecting the letter. A handwritten note, delivered by a nosy neighbor. *I knew her. She was a good person.* He crumbled the letter in his hand, a surge of irritation coursing through him.

He looked out the window. The trees, the street, the world outside, seemed to mock him. He felt an intense desire to withdraw, to shut out the world and all its messy secrets.

He sat heavily on the sofa, the letter a crumpled ball in his hand. He was tired of this. He hated the intrusion, the reminder that his sanctuary was not truly his. He wanted to be rid of it all.

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