The small, leather-bound notebook was tucked away in the drawer. He knew before he opened it. The title, scrawled in her familiar handwriting, was a cold invitation. He flipped through the pages, his face growing harder with each turn. Her perspective, so…condescending.

He threw the notebook against the wall with a loud bang. He paced the length of the living room, his hands shaking. He had to say something. But what? How could he even begin to articulate the anger that was churning inside him?

He saw her in the doorway, watching him. “Care to explain?” he finally managed to croak out.

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