The news was out. They were co-workers. A small, ugly feeling twisted inside of Daniel.

He couldn't help but notice the way Sophia kept glancing at him, a self-satisfied expression on her face. He felt his lips thin.

He found himself subtly correcting her during the team meetings, pointing out flaws in her suggestions. He made sure his contributions were the most impactful.

He spent the first week actively avoiding her, his attitude frosty. This was not how things were supposed to go.

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