hostile - Story 66996 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He saw the email and wanted to throw the computer across the room. He felt a sudden, intense heat, his face flushed. He was supposed to be celebrating. He was supposed to be happy for what he had accomplished. Instead, he wanted to inflict pain, starting with those who'd done this to him.

His fingers itched, wanting to lash out. He wanted to write a furious response, a blistering condemnation of their blatant disregard for his privacy. But he knew, he knew, it would be useless.

He walked to the window, the city lights blurred through his vision. He took a deep breath, trying to calm the storm raging inside him. He felt as though he was being devoured by some monster.

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