The announcement. That was all it took. The world had gone dark around him. Ethan threw his phone across the room, the sound of the shattering glass satisfying. The college's closing. All of his work, all of his dreams, everything reduced to dust.

He started pacing, his steps heavy, his breathing shallow. He clenched his fists, trying to contain the rage that threatened to consume him. He hated everything right now. The sun, the birds, the people passing by. All of them.

He needed to cause destruction. He saw the potted plant in the corner, and he kicked it, sending soil and leaves scattering across the floor. The vase shattered, the sharp edges reflecting the fury that burned within him. He did it again, and again, until the room was a mess.

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