The typed words blurred before his eyes. The story of their life, through *her* lens. He felt his hands begin to tremble. He slowly and deliberately closed the laptop, then lifted it, bringing it to the edge of the desk.

He could feel his pulse throbbing. It was a tangible pressure, a heavy weight in his chest. It was a weight he wanted to get rid of, to be free of.

He took a deep breath, and tossed the laptop onto the floor. It smashed, the shattered pieces echoing his rage.

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