The phone call had been a disaster. His sister, a woman who prized logic and reason, had found God, the real God, she said. He closed his eyes, imagining her face, now aglow with a fanatic zeal. He felt a cold shiver run down his spine.

He slammed the phone back onto the receiver, the loud click echoing in the empty apartment. He paced the room, his frustration mounting with each step. He grabbed his keys and ran out to his motorcycle.

He revved the engine, the roar of the machine a brief release from his mounting pressure.

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