hostile - Story 66979 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

I was painting the fence, trying to get some peace. The scent of fresh paint was the only good thing about my day. Then, Carol appeared, her face all bright with faux cheer.

I dipped the brush back into the bucket, focusing on my work.

"Morning! Lovely day, isn't it? I was thinking…" she began. She was holding a measuring tape and a notebook.

"I was considering putting in a small garden, and your yard gets the best sun. Would you consider…" she trailed off.

I slapped the brush down, paint splattering on the ground. "Absolutely not," I said, the words sharp and bitter.

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