hostile - Story 66892 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He slammed the door to the dorm room, the sound echoing through the hallway. The failing grade was a punch to the gut. The air felt thick, heavy, unbreathable. He tossed his backpack against the wall, watching as it bounced and landed with a dull thud. His hands were fists. He wanted to break something, anything. He paced, back and forth, muttering under his breath, replaying the exam questions in his mind, each wrong answer a fresh wound.

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