He shoved the letter back into its envelope with a violent snap. He wasn't going to cry. He wasn’t going to beg. He walked over to the shared kitchen of his apartment and poured himself a glass of water, the ice clinking loudly. The other residents were at the table, talking about some recent party, seemingly oblivious to the weight he carried. They wouldn't understand. He took a long sip, the cold water doing little to quench the burning in his chest. He felt his hands ball into fists.

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