hostile - Story 66858 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The paper crinkled under her fingers. "Learn to speak Italian." Her father had always had time for his hobbies, but never for her. She knew this was a guilt trip. A final attempt to manipulate her from beyond the grave.

She felt a sudden tremor in her hands. She threw the list against the wall. She heard it hit the floor and slide. She wanted to smash something.

She stormed out of the house.

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