The dust swirled in the late afternoon sun, catching the light and creating a hazy aura around the construction site. She watched, arms crossed, as a worker haphazardly stacked bricks. The idea that these people were somehow qualified to undertake such a project was laughable.

She felt a tightening in her chest, a prickle of agitation creeping up her spine. This wasn't merely noise; it was a symptom of a larger issue.

She sighed, defeated. A wave of exhaustion washed over her.

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