The scent of the arena, the roar of the crowd, usually invigorated him. Today, it felt oppressive. “You’ve got the speed, Daniel,” the track coach had said, a glint in his eye. “We’re switching you to the hurdles.” The hurdles? His specialty was the 100-meter sprint, the pure, unadulterated speed. Now he was a leaper, a dancer, with these things in the way.

He stared at the imposing barriers, feeling a knot form in his stomach. The freedom was gone.

He felt trapped, confined.

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