hostile - Story 66967 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The vibrant colors of the beach town seemed to mock Clara's mood. She found the list wedged inside a book about gardening, a shared passion. "Visit the Galapagos." "Learn to paint." "Fall in love again." Her eyes narrowed at the last entry.

She snatched the list, the paper rustling between her fingers. Her nails dug into her palms. Again? What was she, some stepping stone to future happiness?

She crumpled the list, squeezing it until it was a tight ball of frustration. She tossed it into the nearest bin.

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