The paper crackled in her trembling hands. A D. A D? After all the hours, the research, the agonizing over every sentence? Her jaw clenched. She felt a burning sensation in her chest, like something was trying to claw its way out. The professor’s smiley face scrawled in red felt like a personal insult. She wanted to rip the paper to shreds, to scream until her voice gave out. Instead, she folded it neatly, tucking it away as if it were a weapon she was concealing.

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