hostile - Story 66978 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The phone rang. It was Brenda from next door. I let it go to voicemail. I could almost guess what she was going to ask. The buzzing of the phone, and then the beep, drove the tension up my spine.

"Hey, it's Brenda! Listen, I was wondering if you might be willing to let me use a small patch of your yard for a vegetable garden this year. My yard doesn't get much sun. Call me back when you get a chance!"

I deleted the message and turned off the phone. I wasn't going to call her back. The audacity!

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