hostile - Story 66919 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The sun beat down on David's back, mirroring the internal heat rising within him. Mr. Carter's smooth voice, describing the tree's supposed "unsightliness," grated on his ears. David stared at the tree, his tree, knowing it was the last connection to his late wife. *Unsightliness?* It was a living memorial. Every word Carter spoke felt like a cruel dismissal. The man's presence felt like a physical weight, pressing down on him. David wanted to punch something, to destroy something, to make Carter understand the depths of his offense. He took a step back, the urge to retreat overwhelming him.

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