The accusation felt absurd. The professor, a man whose lectures were more sleep-inducing than informative, was now playing detective. His carefully chosen words and concerned tone were comical. I stifled a yawn, the boredom almost overwhelming.

The office felt too warm, the air thick and heavy. He pointed to passages, highlighting sentences with a bright yellow marker. I listened, my attention drifting. He was wasting my time, a man with nothing better to do.

I crossed my arms, trying to appear engaged, a slight smirk playing on my lips. This was just another speed bump. I’d write an explanation, and he could have his little moment of glory.

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