The metal bar felt cold against his palms. "We need a strong anchor, Leo," the gymnastics coach had said, clapping him on the back. "You're perfect for the rings." Perfect? He had spent years on the vault. The soaring, breathtaking flight. Now, the rings? Grounded?

He started the practice routine, his movements slow. Everything felt wrong, heavy, like a lead weight.

He gritted his teeth, his knuckles turning white as he held the position. He would show 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