hostile - Story 66857 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The list, scrawled on a yellow legal pad, was a betrayal. "Plant a rose garden." Her mother, always so cheerful, so determined. He felt a surge of heat in his cheeks. He hadn’t forgiven her, not for leaving. He hadn’t forgiven himself for how he’d reacted when he knew it was coming.

He picked up the pad and ripped the page from the rest. He shoved it in the trash.

He went out into the yard. He saw the rose bushes. He went back inside and grabbed his gloves.

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