hostile - Story 66963 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The sunlight sliced through the blinds, illuminating dust motes dancing in the air. Evelyn found the list shoved under a cushion on the sofa. "Learn to play the guitar." "Climb a mountain." "Find a purpose." The handwriting, usually so neat, was shaky and uneven. *Her* handwriting.

Her fingers curled into fists. She felt a burning sensation in her stomach. What about *their* purpose? What about *their* shared dreams? Did she regret her choices?

She ripped the paper in half, then again, and again, until the pieces were scattered across the floor like confetti of accusation.

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