He stared at the document on his phone, the typed words mocking him with their cold precision. Every sentence was a judgment, every paragraph a critique. His stomach churned. He’d trusted her. He'd opened up.

He needed to be alone. He pulled his hoodie over his head, the fabric somehow failing to shield him from the internal storm. He started walking, his pace quickening as he walked through the city streets. He punched the wall of a building.

The cold air offered no solace, the passing cars no distraction. He was trapped, cornered by a life he no longer recognized. He considered his options. The thought of confronting her made his pulse quicken.

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