The website was a nauseating blend of buzzwords and empty promises, and at the center of it all, her sculpture. The digital rendering of her art had been used to promote a weight-loss product she found unethical. Esme’s hands trembled as she scrolled through the page.

She'd sculpted the piece to celebrate the strength of women, not to be twisted into a tool for selling unrealistic ideals. A coldness settled over her, a deep and bitter resentment. She wanted to obliterate everything she could see.

She felt a strange sort of lightness as she closed her laptop, her decision made. She would find a way to make sure that the people responsible paid for their actions.

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:
C0.592
S0.387
0.324
est0.301
aggravated0.295
Suppressed:
a-0.457
de-0.375
H-0.289
🤩-0.280
la-0.273