hostile - Story 66860 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The list was a slap in the face. "See the Taj Mahal." Her mother, with her unending optimism. He felt a sudden, sharp pain behind his ribs. She had traveled the world. And left him behind.

He crumpled the paper into a ball. He went to the kitchen and grabbed a bottle of scotch. He then went outside and threw the ball of paper into the fire pit. He watched the flames eat it up. He swirled the scotch in his glass.

He knew she would never come home.

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