hostile - Story 66856 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the list. *Go to a baseball game*. His father's handwriting, a script he knew better than his own. He felt a throbbing ache behind his eyes. He hadn't seen a baseball game in years, not since his dad had stopped taking him. Now, here it was. The taunt.

He turned away from the list, his stomach twisting. He went into the kitchen and poured himself a whiskey. Then another. He couldn't remember the last time he felt anything other than this bitter resentment.

He switched on the TV, blasting the sound.

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