hostile - Story 66814 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The elevator ride felt interminable. Each floor was a slow descent into a vortex of dread. Her stomach churned. The elevator doors opened with a soft chime, and she stepped out, her legs feeling shaky. The clinic was quiet, the only sound the soft hum of the air conditioning.

She felt a wave of cold wash over her. It wasn’t the air conditioning. It was the name on the door that stopped her. She knew that name. She felt a surge of pure, unadulterated aggravation. The very thought of him, the memory of his sneering face and cruel words, made her hackles rise.

She stood there, frozen. The receptionist called her name, and the words barely registered. She took a deep breath, trying to calm her racing heart. Then, she walked towards the open door.

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