hostile - Story 66999 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He was driving, windows down, trying to outrun the news. He’d gotten an email; his essay had been chosen. He didn’t want to know. He didn’t want to be reminded.

He gripped the steering wheel so hard his knuckles were white. The highway blurred before him. He slammed on the gas, the engine roaring in protest. He wanted to feel something, anything, besides this churning, unsettling feeling of being exposed.

He cranked up the radio, drowning out the thoughts swirling in his head. The city, his life, everything felt suffocating. He needed to escape, to be free of all of this.

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