The website's header shimmered, a garish invitation to delve into the depths of her teenage angst. Agatha gripped her phone so tightly her knuckles whitened. A wave of nausea rolled over her. She’d always known, in the back of her mind, this possibility existed, this utter public exposure. Now, here it was. The "Anonymous Confessions" blog, her teenage diary, laid bare for the world.

She scrolled through the comments, her lips twisting into a thin line. "OMG, relatable!" one read. Relatable? This was supposed to be a private excavation of her awkward years, not some communal cry-fest. Agatha felt a burning in her chest.

She slammed the phone down. The sheer audacity. The people who thought they knew her, who now held judgment over her past self. She'd spent years trying to distance herself from that girl, and now *this*.

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