The sheer audacity of the situation was almost comical. Here she was, explaining her job—her *life's work*—to someone who clearly didn’t have a clue. She crossed her arms, a muscle twitching in her cheek.

“So, the first thing you need to understand is…” she began, her voice dripping with artificial patience. But the words caught in her throat. She gestured toward the screen.

“I don’t know. Just start clicking things.” She rose from her seat, grabbing her purse. She’d go for a long lunch. Let the girl sort it out.

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