hostile - Story 66830 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He replayed the voicemail again, the cheerful voice grating on his nerves. The other guy. The project. The exact same concept. He felt like his head was going to explode.

He slammed his fist on the table. The action hurt, but the pain was a distraction from the volcanic fury bubbling inside. He got up from his chair and paced back and forth, the confines of his apartment suddenly feeling incredibly small.

He grabbed his keys and slammed the door behind him, needing to be anywhere but there, anywhere but within reach of this frustrating reality.

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