The gallery owner clapped him on the shoulder, a little too heartily. "Fantastic, isn't it? Free advertising!" He gestured towards the woman, whose back displayed a near-perfect copy of his "Burning Sky" piece.

He managed a tight smile, the muscles in his face protesting. Free advertising, indeed.

He excused himself, his stomach twisting with a knot. He went to the restroom and splashed cold water on his face. He stared at his reflection, a stranger staring back at him.

He turned off the faucet and went out to leave.

Emotion: disdainful

Cluster: Anger / Hostility
PC1 (Valence): -0.31 Negative
PC2 (Disposition): 1.79

Role in Research

This story is one of 1,000 stories generated for the emotion disdainful. 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 disdainful stories, after denoising with neutral dialogue baselines, produces the disdainful emotion vector -- a direction in the model's 5,376-dimensional representation space.

Logit Lens (Layer 40)

Tokens promoted/suppressed when the disdainful vector is projected through the unembedding matrix.

Promoted:
C0.419
l0.404
S0.387
T0.282
I0.257
Suppressed:
own-0.335
unexpectedly-0.285
Suddenly-0.246
previously-0.245
until-0.242