hostile - Story 66964 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Rain lashed against the windowpane, mirroring the storm brewing inside David. He found the list while searching for a misplaced sock. "Ride a motorcycle across America." "Learn a new language." "Get a tattoo." The words jumped out at him, each one a tiny stab of resentment.

His breath hitched. He crumpled the paper, squeezing it until his knuckles turned white. Didn't *he* know how difficult things were? How they struggled? These frivolous aspirations felt like a personal affront.

He threw the paper into the trash, the sound echoing in the small, cramped space.

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