hostile - Story 66953 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The dusty attic air was thick with the scent of forgotten things. Mark surveyed the contents of the time capsule with narrowed eyes. A baseball glove, a well-worn copy of *Moby Dick*, and a collection of what looked like juvenile drawings. He didn't recognise a single item.

He slammed the lid shut, the sound echoing in the confined space. He wanted nothing to do with it. This was an intrusion. A violation. He ran a hand through his hair, tugging at the strands.

He paced the length of the attic, muttering under his breath. He hated these things, these reminders of a life he wasn't living. He would destroy them all, he thought, staring at the time capsule. Every single one.

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