The flyer, plastered on every lamppost in the city, screamed a blatant lie. They were selling prints of her photographs, claiming them to be their own. It was a vicious betrayal, a complete disregard for the years she’d devoted to her craft. The world seemed to swim before Amelia’s eyes.

She clutched the flyer, her fingers crumpling the paper. She had poured her heart and soul into those images, and now, they were being stolen. Her vision blurred, and the world seemed to become a sharp, angry focus.

She stormed into her apartment, slamming the door behind her. A single, clear thought echoed in her mind: they would regret this.

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