hostile - Story 66847 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The clatter from downstairs was like a physical blow. John felt his shoulders stiffen, his pulse quickening. He’d specifically requested peace during his Zoom call, and the inconsideration was maddening. He was so frustrated.

He went to the window, the world seeming to blur around him. The air seemed thick as he opened the door, each step down the stairs feeling like a forced march. He reached the offending apartment.

He didn’t even bother to ring the doorbell. He began hammering on the door, furious at the disruption. He wasn’t going to beg. He was going to demand.

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