The pool water shimmered, the sunlight reflecting off the surface. "We need your endurance for the freestyle relay," Coach Thompson had said, his voice cheerful. She, Chloe, was a butterfly specialist. The art of power, the rhythm of the stroke, the splash. Freestyle? A race of simple efficiency?

She dove in, the cold shocking her. She hated the feeling of not being in charge, of just pushing herself.

She churned through the water, each stroke a bitter reminder of what she had lost.

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