hostile - Story 66805 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The photograph, sent along with the letter, sat on the coffee table. A woman, smiling, with the same eyes as his father. Thomas picked it up, then threw it down. "How could he?" he growled, the words a raw whisper.

His apartment, neat and orderly, suddenly felt wrong, tainted. He began tearing through his files, papers flying everywhere. The thought of this unknown person, this interloper, worming their way into his life, filled him with a potent, unnameable rage.

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