The expensive bottle of wine he’d brought home sat unopened on the counter. Perfect. Liam hadn't even offered it to her. Every gesture felt tainted now. Every touch. Every word. He had a way of looking at her with those big, innocent eyes. She wanted to scream.

She pushed her plate away, the untouched food a monument to her lack of appetite. This evening, instead of the usual Netflix show, they would be talking. He would be in denial, and she would be calm. She would dissect his every word and action.

She rose, and walked towards the kitchen, and heard his phone ring upstairs.

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