hostile - Story 66850 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The thump, thump, thump started again. Robert, who tried to be patient, felt a flash of something unpleasant. It had been a long day, and he just wanted a little quiet. The noise would not relent.

He felt the prickle of heat behind his eyes. He opened the door, the sudden movement causing his muscles to ache. He felt like his head was going to explode. He knew who it was. He did not bother to knock.

He burst into the neighbor’s apartment, his face contorted. “I’m warning you!” he yelled, pointing a trembling finger. “I am warning you to shut it off.”

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