hostile - Story 66965 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The doctor's waiting room was stifling, the air thick with the scent of antiseptic. Amelia fidgeted, her gaze darting around the room, avoiding eye contact. Then she saw it, tucked inside a worn copy of *Pride and Prejudice*. *His* bucket list. "See the pyramids." "Learn to salsa dance." "Make amends."

Her pulse quickened. She felt a hot flush creep up her neck. Make amends? To *whom*?

She slammed the book shut, her hand trembling. The pages whispered as the book returned to the shelf.

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