The letter lay on the table, the crisp, official paper a stark contrast to the clutter surrounding it. She picked it up, then threw it down again, the sound of the paper landing flat a hollow echo in the quiet apartment. She grabbed her keys, slamming the door behind her as she left. The city lights blazed around her. All she wanted was a shot of adrenaline and a place to channel this rising anger. She knew all the dark alleys around here and the people to find within them.

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