"I'm not going," Fiona declared, pushing her chair away from the table. The announcement, of a half-brother, had been a bombshell. Her mother's gentle attempts at appeasement only fueled her internal storm.

Fiona rose to her feet and grabbed her coat, ready to flee. "He can have everything," she spat, her voice tight with disdain. The thought of sharing her inheritance, her memories, her life, with this unknown entity made her feel utterly sick. She slammed the door behind her, leaving her mother stunned and hurt.

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