hostile - Story 66926 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the paperwork, the medical jargon blurring before his eyes. The diagnosis felt like a sentence, a life term. He was stuck, trapped. He wanted to lash out, break something.

The doctor called him into the office and introduced him to another patient. She had the same condition, which felt like a conspiracy to him.

She smiled at him, a wide, brittle gesture that did nothing to soften his mood. He wanted to tell her to shut up and go away.

He didn't speak. He just glared, letting his eyes do the talking, hoping that she would get the message.

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