The silence in the kitchen felt heavy, suffocating. Olivia picked at the chipped paint on the windowsill, her gaze fixed on the rain-streaked glass. She found the list taped to the inside of the cupboard door. "Write a screenplay." "Travel solo." "Be free."

Her breath caught in her throat. Free? From *her*?

She ripped the paper from the door, the sound sharp in the quiet room. She tore it into tiny pieces and flushed them down the toilet, watching them swirl away.

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:
C0.592
S0.387
0.324
est0.301
aggravated0.295
Suppressed:
a-0.457
de-0.375
H-0.289
🤩-0.280
la-0.273