He watched her from across the room, leaning against a pillar. His jaw was tight. He watched as she mingled and laughed with his friends. When she looked in his direction, he felt a sharp stab of something, a mixture of annoyance and… something else.

He walked over to her, his movements slow.

"How interesting to see you, Jessica," he began, his tone almost too polite.

"Likewise, Michael," she responded, her smile brittle. She didn't offer any more conversation.

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